Re: [Muine] Groups and the main UI

[Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org>]

On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 00:51, Link Dupont wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 15:01, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Maybe making it a popup? Accessed via the menu like the seekbar? Or
> maybe just a menu item, with a submenu that's populated with existing
> groups. I imagine that I'd only want to randomly fill my playlist once,
> then let the player play. The main UI doesn't need to have that feature
> in it. Once the random songs are added, the user would never need to add
> more (or rarely need to add more).

Good point .. yet at the same time I think this is very much a basic
feature that should be very visible..


Jorn

> 
> > Any help and discussion on this subject would be most welcome!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jorn
> > 
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