Am Mittwoch, den 25.05.2005, 18:36 +0200 schrieb Lars Weber: > Am Dienstag, den 24.05.2005, 06:10 -0700 schrieb Peter Johanson: > > [...] I guess the question is did you mean to remove the "Play Song" > > dialog completely in exchange for this enhanced play album thing? If > > so, *that* is what i'm against, removing the ability to quickly add a > > song, > > But if done right, it should at least be almost as easy to add > individual songs by using the new dialog as it is now with the extra > dialog. If this were the case, I don't think it would make much sense > to still keep both. > > > without going through the add album dialog. [...] > > The dialog would of course be called something like "Add Tracks", "Add > Music" or whatever. > > Anyway, as already mentioned in an earlier mail, the idea of merging the > "Add Track" dialog with the "Add Album" dialog is one that I also spent > quite some time thinking about. The difficult part is with translating > the general idea into a user-interface that's not too cluttered or > difficult to comprehend. Some open questions: > > o Should there be some kind of mode-switching between album mode and > track mode in the new dialog (i.e.: toggle-buttons, tabs, ...)? Yes, would be bad. > o Otherwise, should albums and tracks share a single list view or > should there be separate lists? Should be shown as an mock-upped tree-view. Album, including the cover is the parent, the tracks are the childs. tree-view is closed by default or -- much better -- remember its last state. > o Should the search behavior for tracks be the same as currently for > albums and tracks (i.e. show all tracks by default and then remove those > not matching the search criteria)? Look at my ascii. I think it should be choosen by the user via a checkbox. > [With a mode-switching or split interface this seems to be the best > option but with a shared album-/track-search it might make more sense to > only show tracks when they're specifically matched on the title.] Look above. > o How can the display of tracks for specific albums be nicely > integrated? Look at this exaple: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add Music | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | | | Search | (x) Albums () Albums and Tracks | | --------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^| | | |xxxxxxxx| Lost in Space |X| | | > |xxxxxxxx| Aimee Mann |X| | | |xxxxxxxx| |X| | ------------------------------------------------------------------ X| | | |xxxxxxxx| I'm with Stupid |X| | | > |xxxxxxxx| Aimee Mann |X| | | |xxxxxxxx| |X| | ------------------------------------------------------------------ X| | | |xxxxxxxx| The Alice Cooper Show |X| | | > |xxxxxxxx| Alice Cooper |X| | | |xxxxxxxx| |X| | ------------------------------------------------------------------ X| | | |xxxxxxxx| Lost in Space |X| | | > |xxxxxxxx| Aimee Mann |X| | | |xxxxxxxx| |X| | ------------------------------------------------------------------ v| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add Music | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------- | | | Search | (x) Albums () Albums and Tracks | | --------------------- | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ ^| | | |xxxxxxxx| Lost in Space |X| | | v |xxxxxxxx| Aimee Mann |X| | | |xxxxxxxx| |X| | ----------------------------------------------------------------- X| | * 01 - Humpty Dumpty | | * 02 - High On Sunday 51 | | * 03 - Lost In Space | | * 04 - This Is How It Goes | | * 05 - Guys Like Me | | * 06 - Pavlov's Bell | | * 07 - Real Bad News | | * 08 - Invisible Ink | | * 09 - Today's The Day | | * 10 - The Moth | | * 11 - It's Not | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my idea of how it works. I hope it is self-explaining. What do you think about that? Greets, Lars -- name: Lars Strojny web: http://strojny.net street: Yorckstrasse 22 blog: http://usrportage.de city: D-71636 Ludwigsburg mail/jabber: lars strojny net f-print: 1FD5 D8EE D996 8E3E 1417 328A 240F 17EB 0263 AC07
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