Re: [Muine] muine & playlists

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

Well, the problem is that if we never purge the playlist, it will grow
endlessly until the user selects "clear played songs". Which I
personally really don't want to bother with: I just want to be able to
play and queue up the things I want to hear, not having to worry about
my weekly "muine cleansweeping session".

As for the repeat thing: If you want to recylce the playlist, this is in
a sense "repeating" the playlist. So I would think there is a fairly
clear connection between keeping the playlist intact, and the repeat
option. Maybe it's just me but.. anyway, it's impossible to please
everybody so I think the current way is how it will stay. Unless
somebody comes with a feasible alternative ..

> Of course, if what you propose is the "only right way" for Muine I
> would understand and just patch this behaviour for myself. Although I
> would still think that music player should not "imply" that I want
> anything when I didn't specifically tell it so.

Hmm, well, a bit of a different comment here: If it wasn't for implying
things we would still be in Gnome 1.x with zillions of strange config
options. And no HAL or anything like that :)


Cheers,
Jorn


> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 14:03:11 +0100, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>
> wrote:
> > If you want to keep the current playlist, it probably implies you
> want
> > to play it again- checking the "Repeat" toggle will make sure the
> > playlist is restored as a whole.
> 
> Uh, no, I don't want to repeat the playlist. I don't even like
> auto-repeating of any kind. :-(
> 
> Sometimes I listen to specific tracks from different albums in no
> particular order, and I simply don't want to half of my playlist to
> disappear when I quit the player. Sometimes I just like to listen to
> specific album several times (again in no particular order).
> 
> I don't really see any logical connection with the repeat option. I
> want the player to stop when it reaches the end of playlist so (for
> example) I could add some more stuff or click somewhere in the middle
> of playlist to play any specific song I would like to.
> 
> Of course, if what you propose is the "only right way" for Muine I
> would understand and just patch this behaviour for myself. Although I
> would still think that music player should not "imply" that I want
> anything when I didn't specifically tell it so.
> 
> Another thing, maybe Muine should just save the playlist _position_
> when I quit the player, not automatically alter the playlist in any
> way. This would solve my problem and would not break anything in
> currently existing behaviour.
> 
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > Jorn
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:27 +0300, Andrew Dolgov wrote:
> > > Is there any way to stop Muine removing "played" part of current
> > > playlist on exit? I like Muine very much (just spent an entire
> morning
> > > packaging 0.7.1 and Gtk# in debs for my system) but this feature
> > > annoys me greatly. :-(
> > >
> > > Maybe there is (or could be) a runtime option or a gconf key to
> stop
> > > this behaviour?
> > >
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew.
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