Re: Introducing Muine, Rhythmbox in 2.8 and other things

[Mike Chavoustie <chavoumd clarkson edu>]

Shaun ONeil wrote:
> A big blank playlist was a little odd to be greeted with.  Is there any
> way this could contain 'what next' information when it's not populated.
> ie "your playlist and library are both empty .. you might wanna _Import
> Folder_".  I'm not sure if this is a plus or a minus on usability, but
> some kind of hint somewhere would be nice imho.

I agree here.  Even after importing a folder, your playlist remains 
blank.  There's no status bar or confirmation that n songs were imported 
, so that means I have to go set up a playlist.  Maybe a "what next" 
dialog would help, but is that really standard?

I know this is really Rhythmbox feature, and we're trying to get away 
from that with Muine, but a "view library" button, or even a status bar 
at the bottom reporting how many songs are in my library seems 
appropriate here.

On another note, I've noticed 2 things about importing folders:

1)  If you import a folder, and then add songs to it afterward, Muine 
doesn't update your folder contents, and you have to re-add the folder 
to get the files.  I've done it on the fly (with Muine still open), and 
after closing and re-opening Muine.
2)  #1 causes you to have multiple copies of everything, i.e., if I have 
Song A in my library, add Song B, then re-import, I now have 2 copies of 
Song A and one copy of Song B.  This is probably an easy fix (or my copy 
is busticated), and if I knew C# better, I'd probably attach a patch.

Has anybody else seen this, and/or should I file bug(s)?

--Mike