Re: [Muine] Groups and the main UI

[enntee <enntee localgod net>]

I *love* the idea of pre-defined groups. 

The idea of being able to create a group for music that has been added in the
past month/week/etc (based on file modification date, maybe) makes me a special
kind of giddy. I know for myself at least, I'm always having to go to nautilus
to figure out what I've ripped recently.

Anyways, yeah.

- enntee

> Hi,
> 
> Muine is currently missing random playback & grouping features. I had
> the following idea to solve this:
> 
> We allow the user to group music together. Manually, and we could also
> automatically generate groups based on genre information (or create
> groups for "orphan" songs (ie no album), "never played", etc). We then
> allow the user to select multiple groups to be played back from. Muine
> will then make sure that there are always, say, 10 songs left to be
> played in the playlist (so that the user can see what is played next,
> and remove any songs he/she isn't feeling like hearing right now). These
> songs will be randomly chosen from the selected groups. 
> 
> We can integrate some nifty statistics here, to make the random song
> picking code favour songs that are played more manually, and favour
> songs that are skipped or whatever less.
> 
> There is one other idea regarding random playback that I find very
> interesting, but that does not directly fit into this model: Playing
> random albums, like the iPod apparently does. 
> 
> The other problem is how to integrate this into the main UI. I did some
> glading, but I am not happy with the result - it looks messy:
> http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Muine/groups.png
> 
> Any help and discussion on this subject would be most welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jorn
> 
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