Re: [Muine] [PATCH] Display album-name in PlaylistWindow.cs

[Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org>]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:23:13PM +0200, Lars Strojny wrote:
> 
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | 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?

I *still* think that for someone just wanting to add that one song they
like, this is a step back. Currently if i want to add "Humpty Dumpty", i
do "shumpty<ENTER>" and boom. i'm playing "Humpty Dumpty". Similarly, I
often want to queue up individual tracks from various albums I have,
based on their track name. "shumpt<ALT + Q>worry<ALT + Q>", etc.

With that proposed "Add Music", I have no choice but to move to my mouse
to click a small expander (at which point i'm assuming since i've typed
"humpty" it will jump to that song). From an efficiency point of view,
losing the "never switch to my mouse, and start playing a song in roughly
1 second of typing" is a *major* loss. Losing the ability to quickly queue up a
bunch of songs from a mix of albums is a major loss.

Am I the only one that finds the ability to do that a major draw of
muine? Anyway, as an enhancement to "Add Album" (maybe with a rename), I
still think this is good; as a replacement to "Add Song" + "Add Album",
I still just see a loss of functionality.

But we can always agree to disagree.

-pete

-- 
Peter Johanson
<latexer gentoo org>