Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Some suggestions

[Joshua Haberman <joshua haberman com>]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 17:46, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 19:28, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> >  1) It would be nice to be able to queue up songs without
> >     having to build a play-list.  Drag songs into the queue
> >     where they wait their turn.  Once played they simply fall
> >     off the queue.  Great for parties where everyone is a DJ.
> >     Perhaps the vertical "Source" area could be tabbed with
> >     "Queue" area in another tab.
> 
> This is what playlists *should* be.  We just have to unbreak them.  This
> will happen right after the database reworking.

I feel like these are different concepts.  Playlists are an ordered
subset of the library.  You can start anywhere in the list, and once a
song is done it moves to the next one.  A queue would be different:

* if nothing is currently playing, you should be able to drag a song to
the queue to start playing only that song.  Once that song is finished,
RB stops playing again.
* once a song in the queue has been played, it should disappear from the
queue.  You would never want this to happen for a playlist.

It seems reasonable that the queue could be a new source that has a
similar implementation to playlists, with these two major differences.

Josh