Re: [Banshee-List] Fwd: 13 decimal places

[Alex Hixon <hixon alexander mediati org>]

Since we've got two threads kinda disucssing the same thing, and this one
is newer, I guess I'll cry here instead.

We should probably create a bug or something and collate everything there.
Oh well.

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:16:32 -0600, "Aaron Bockover" <abockover novell com>
wrote:
> In the old Banshee we broke the duration down into days, hours, minutes,
> seconds. It's just way too verbose. What's the point in actually knowing
> that granularity?
> 
> We chose to use a single number in a single scale. If you have days of
> music, why do you care that there are 2 hours, 3 minutes, 5 seconds on
> top of that? It's just noise, and detracts from other useful information
> in the status bar.

That's perfectly fine in the Library, however, when you've got playlists
that are < one hour, or less than a days worth for the obsessive-
compolsive, having 3.6 minutes worth of music is not a proper way to
measure time.

I don't mind it when you've got more than a day's worth of music, yeah,
that's reasonable. But when you've got 3:35 in the Duration column but
"1 item, 3.6 minutes, 3 MB", that's a bit silly, and not consistent.

Cutting down on noise is a good thing, however, you *do* want to adjust
the threshold on which you filter the noise depending on the total
length of the tracks.

I'd find the following formatting rules alright:
  * 1 item, 49 seconds, 1.2 MB
  * 3 items, 8 minutes, 12 seconds, 12 MB
  * 29 items, 3.5 hours, 104 MB
  * 106 items, 1.2 days, 527.9 MB

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Alex Hixon