Re: [Muine] Groups and the main UI

[enntee <enntee localgod net>]

Well, I have sort of a radical idea for taking care of groups and albums. I hope
no one takes offense to this, I love the current UI and everything, this is
just an idea I had... take it for what it's worth ;)

Instead of the "Add Songs" and "Add Albums" buttons in the main UI, there would
just be an "Add Music" button. Clicking on this button would launch a new
window, just as it does now. However, in this new window you have 3 different
shortcuts on the right (a la evolution's shortcut bar, for example), those
shortcuts being "Songs", "Albums", and "Groups," probably with "Songs" being
selected by default (or whatever the user selected last, maybe).

That way, you can pretty much access whatever you need to, and there's plenty of
room to add more stuff later on (internet radio, for example). Of course, it
doesn't have to be an outlook sidebar, maybe there's some better way of
selecting between "Groups," "Albums," and "Songs." As for a shuffle mode, I
don't see any dilemna in just adding checkboxes to the bottom. *Shrug*

If this sounds at all interesting (or if I've completely failed to visualize),
I'd be happy to do a mockup of what I'm talking about. 

That's my suggestion tho, hope it's helpful somehow ;)

Cheers

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Quoting Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>:

> 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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