Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:34 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 22:06 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I'd rather wait until 2.11/2.12 to add sound-juicer because I think it's
> > only worthwhile when it can be a replacement for the CD player that
> > happens to rip CDs too.
> 
> I have to admit I'm a little mystified by this "merge the ripper and the
> player UI" trend - I see that they involve the same implementation
> backend, but I don't see how the user tasks are related.
> 
> I never play CDs, I only rip.

I do both, because my disk space is limited.

And there may still be people who only rip the CDs that they own, and
play the others.

>  But even for people who do both, I can't
> imagine they see them as the same task or typically want to do them at
> the same time.
> 
> Are we glomming the UI together just because it's the same backend?
> 
> Havoc

It makes sense to me because I think of both tasks as doing something
with the CD, and I think that both tasks involve seeing a list of songs
and thinking about maybe ripping them.

I do think that the SJ CD-player UI could be far better than the
horrible car-stereo UI of our existing player.

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Murray Cumming
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