Re: [Banshee-List] Suggestions (my 8 cents)

[Alexander Kojevnikov <alexander kojevnikov com>]

2009/6/21 Eugenio Rustico <jfrusciante tiscali it>:
>  Hello,
> I switched many players in last years and I've been a Banshee user for
> a while. I think it is a great player. There are some little
> suggestions I'd like to give. I thought it was easier to post them all
> once rather than googling and opening bug reports/feature requests for
> all... so I'm sorry for duplicates! I hope I wasn't wrong :)
>

Hi Eugenio,

Actually it's much easier for developers if all issues are filed as
separate bugs in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. I suggest that you do it,
otherwise your suggestions will just be lost.

Some of the bugs you described already exist, I will provide links,
feel free to CC yourself to the bugs to be notified when they are
fixed.

> - It would be useful to interactively go through the artist list by
> pressing a letter. When you have >100 artists a slider is weird to
> use... however, many hotkeys are not combined with meta-keys (e.g.
> "next track" hotkey is just "n"), so I have no suggestions for how to
> realize it...
>

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399655

You can also press '/' and filter your library.

> - It is not possible actually (is it?) to see a bigger preview of an album cover
>

You can hover the mouse pointer over the cover preview - a bigger
preview will pop up. See also
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584299

> - I made an "intelligent playlist" (i don't know the exact translation
> in english, in italian it's "scaletta intelligente") with the
> condition: filename string must contain "by Leo" (it is the name of a
> subdir). However, if I add files in that subdirectory and I rescan the
> library I still can't see the new files in the playlist, I have to
> restart Banshee
>

They are called 'smart playlists'. Search BGO, file a new bug if it
doesn't already exsist.

> - I miss the possibility to filter the current playlist by filename
> rather than only by title/artist/album (I'm thinking of files like
> "track 01.mp3" with no id3 tags that are in a folder I know the name
> of)
>

Same as above.

> - It would be nice to be able to drag the current track (i.e. the
> title in the top) to a playlist
>

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=428849, it has a patch
that you could help testing.

> - Is there the need to ask for confirmation every time I cancel a
> track from a playlist? I'm not deleting the file itself... maybe no
> confirmation but undo function would be more usable
>
> - I couldn't find a way to automatically fill id3 tags from databases
> like MusicBrainz. I have to use Picard separately. Is this feature
> planned?
>

Search BGO, file a new bug if it doesn't already exsist.

> - It is not possible to toggle the "playing" status by command line: I
> had to write a script that first checks if the app is playing or is in
> pause (banshee --query-current-state), and then chooses between
> "--pause" and "--play"
>

You can use --toggle-playing

> I hope I didn't write only already-known stuff...
>
>  Best Regards
>  Eugenio Rustico

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Alex