Re: [Banshee-List] banshee suggestions

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

2008/10/24 Tehmasp Chaudhri <tehmasp gmail com>

Wanted to make a couple of suggestions to the current version of
Banshee-1.

Suggestions and enhancement requests should be done on Bugzilla: http://banshee-project.org/contribute/file-bugs/
 

1 - Would it be a good idea to somehow mark the name of the artist (in
the artist window) for which song is currently playing?  And further
mark the album (in the album listing) for which album is currently
playing.  In the attached screen-shot file I've tried to (quite poorly)
show what I mean.  The artist of the currently playing song is marked in
a dashed line.  The reason I bring this up is that sometimes I want to
quickly get back to my currently playing artist and then the album that
belongs to that artist and I always end up having to figure out which
artist's song is playing.  I want to be able to scroll through the
artist listing and catch the marked row which will tell me that this
artist is currently playing.

Sandy Armstrong's work may be interesting to you: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428849. This hasn't been implemented in Banshee yet, but may in the future. You can track progress via that bug report.
 

2 - I see there is a 'Jump to Playing Song  Ctrl-J' option.  This would
somewhat help with the problem described in 1 above but it only seems to
work when I've currently selected 'All Artists (X)'.  Why does this
option have no effect when I have selected a particular artist and it's
not the currently playing artist?  In this case, it should still jump me
to the correct currently playing artist and album - right?

Yes, definitely. If that's not working, please file a bug via the first link I mentioned above.

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Andrew Conkling

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