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

[rjn <ibgeek gmail com>]

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From: rjn <ibgeek gmail com>
Date: Jun 4, 2005 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Muine] [PATCH] Display album-name in PlaylistWindow.cs
To: Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org>


Hi all.  This is my first time posting so I figure I'd say hi.

Anyway, as a user I agree with Pete, muine is nice because its
extremely efficient in that it requires far less user interaction to
do things.  I was thinking, though... what about just including the
album name in the add song dialog box for each track?  Basically, keep
it how it is now, just with adding an extra line for album name, and
maybe, throwing in the track number if available?

RJ



On 6/4/05, Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org> wrote:
> 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
>
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"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many
generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored
by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you
find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and
the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." --
Buddha