Re: [Banshee-List] Triggering shuffle/all-artists/all-albums at the end of an album
From: Ross Ashley <rashley katto com>
To: banshee-list gnome org
Subject: Re: [Banshee-List] Triggering shuffle/all-artists/all-albums at the end of an album
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:58:14 -0500
So what you really need to do is with one keypress, toggle shuffle
by song to shuffle none and play the first track of the current
album. I'm not familiar with the code but if you find that moving
the current album to the queue is difficult, it seems that is
another way to get the same result.
On 12/9/10 8:18 PM, Neil McKenzie wrote:
Hi Ross,
Thats what I currently do too, but I just want a faster way.
I'd like to be able to do this with my media-centre PC, from
across the room with the multimedia keys on my keyboard on with
buttons on an IR remote. And without even needing the TV on.
I do 90% of what you want to do today with no changes.
I play from genre playlists on 'shuffle song'. When I hear
something I
especially like, I just toggle to 'shuffle none'. After a
time, I go
back to 'shuffle song'. There is no awkward dragging
albums to the play
queue or anything like that. In fact, I rarely use the
play queue
except for special occassions.
The only thing this method doesn't do is play tracks from
the beginning
of the album, however, that is easily accomplished with a
double click.
Am I missing something?
On 10-12-09 09:32 AM, Neil McKenzie wrote:
After some further thought, it
would probably be cleanest
to implement this within the Play Queue, rather than
messing around
with deleting from the play queue, toggling shuffle,
and changing
artist and album selections in the library.
If I leave the Play Queue set to 'Fill by
song', the features I
am after break down to:
(1) A 'Queue and Play' function in the library
which could
ideally be be applied to a song, artist, album or
selection. This would
queue the current selection after the currently
playing song, and skip
the playing song (if any).
(2) A 'Play this album' function, which would
enqueue everything
with the same album name as the playing song,
after the playing song,
and skip the playing song.
(3) Personally I would also want a 'Skip this
album' function,
so that if i get bored half-way through an album i
could instantly go
back to shuffle.
Yeah i am aware of how this can be done
with the queue, but it
seems clumsy.
E.g. if i am playing an album in the
queue and it finishes, it
will shuffle by song. Then when a song I
like comes on and I want to
play the album, I need to:
Click 'Music'
Locate or search for the album
Drag it to the Queue
Click 'Play Queue'
Double-click the first song
And if I want to go back to shuffle when
i'm mid-album, i have
to select-all, delete the queue, then hit
next. What make it even
worse, is that when I drag an album to the
Play Queue, it remains
selected under Music. So when the album
finishes it starts playing the
same album again!
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:06 PM,
Neil McKenzie <neilbags gmail com>
wrote:
> (1) When an album finishes, i
don't want playback to stop. I
would
like to
> instead turn on 'Shuffle by
Song', select 'All Artists' and
'All
Albums'.
> I'm currently using the
'Music' category in the left pane
rather
than the
> 'Play Queue', as it seems a
clumsy way to select and play
whole
albums.
You can queue entire albums or
artists by dragging them to the
queue,
or in the upcoming 1.9.1 release,
click them and press `q` or
right-click them and 'Add to Play
Queue'. As of Banshee 1.9.0 you can
also "Play After" the current
playing Track, Album, or Artist
(which
modifies your play queue
appropriately).
> (2) Whilst in 'Shuffle by
Song' mode, I would like a quick
way
(button,
> shortcut key) to select the
album that the song is currently
playing belongs
> to, and play it from the
beginning to end. Obviously
switching off
shuffle
> by song.
You should be able to just add the
album to the queue; when the song
is done, the play queue will start
playing, and when it's finished
(assuming you have it in manual
mode) playback will return to your
Music or playlist.
I'm sure our UI/UX isn't perfect, so
if you have any suggestions or do
come up w/ some patches, that's
great!
