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

[Lars Weber <lars digiterror net>]

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, ...)?

  [This I'd consider a bad idea generally.]

  o Otherwise, should albums and tracks share a single list view or
should there be separate lists?

  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)?

  [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.]

  o How can the display of tracks for specific albums be nicely
integrated?

  [This is a (the?) hard one...]

Regards,
Lars