Re: [Banshee-List] Some minor interface "improvements"



It's my understanding that Shuffle by Artist will play all songs (in order, i think) by one artist, then randomly select a different artist.  Similarly, Shuffle by Album will play an entire album, and when it finishes, playback moves to different, random album.  This seems to be an area of some confusion, but a fix to Bug 588889 might help a little (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588889).

But back on topic, Alex, I like the changes you've made.  When I first started using Banshee, I thought it was pretty clever that the Next button reflects the shuffle state, but I've also heard several complaints from new users confused about how to turn shuffle on.  I think your adjustments are a good compromise between clever and expected.

Michael

On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Tanuva <tanuva googlemail com> wrote:
Am 28.11.2010 19:23, schrieb Dougal Stanton:

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:27 AM, Alex Launi<alex launi gmail com>  wrote:
Hi everyone, so I spent the last two days hacking away at some minor changes
to the interface and just posted my patch to bugzilla for review. I wanted
to include the community in the UI review. The tl;dr; version is that I got
rid of the next button that included the shuffle options, replacing it with
a normal next button, and moved shuffle and repeat to the bottom left hand
corner.

I largely agree with the changes you've made, and wanted to expand on
something since we're talking UI here.

Is there a better way of defining the "Shuffle by ..." options so they
actually mean something? Maybe it's just me but I've no idea what
"Shuffle by Artist" will actually do. Does it shuffle all songs by the
current artist? Does it shuffle all songs but keep identical artists
apart? Similarly for other By Album, By Rating etc. These might be
really nice/useful options but if they are as opaque to everyone else
as they are to me they probably won't be used very often!

The only option I end up using is Shuffle by Song as that appears to
be the shuffle I expect. :-)

Cheers,


D


For my interpretation of "Shuffle by Artist", I simply select The Artist in the library and then activate normal shuffle. Do we have redundancy here or do these options do different things?

Marcel

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