On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:24:28 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > I definitely agree that the player should be more like > rhythmbox/muine/goobox than the car stereo thing. Yes. > (One approach would be that the CD shows up as a playlist/source in a > general player like rhythmbox/muine, I don't know if that would turn out > well or not.) I think this is the right approach. And I disagree that unifying playing/ripping is the wrong idea when thinking about the use case. In either case the user experience starts with "insert CD", and I don't think we've succeeded if the user has to instruct the computer whether "insert CD" should map to "launch application so I can rip" vs. "launch application so I can listen". If any new sound data, (whether from clicking a URL or inserting a CD or what have you), is presented as a new "playlist", then operations such as "play the sound" or "categorize into my library" can each be made available with a single user operation[*]. This can be smooth enough that the user doesn't even have to think about "ripping". -Carl [*] Of course, this implies removing any series of "configure the music database" dialogs like I saw the first time I ran rhythmbox.
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