On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 15:17, Lee Willis wrote: > This is how Media Player 9 works under M$ and seems to work quite well > [And it's called "Now playing"]. When browsing the library and you find > something you want to listen to you can either: > > (a) Play it > (b) Queue it up What's the UI for this? > Playing it replaces whatever is in the "Now playing" playlist with your > selection/album/etc Hmm. That seems kind of confusing to me. I'd rather simply have a preference for whether or not there is a play queue at all. If you choose not to have one, it works exactly like rb does now. Otherwise, double-clicking on a song just queues it in now playing. If you want to get the behavior of (a), you could just go over to "Now Playing", Edit->Select All, Edit->Delete. Then double-click. > Queueing it up adds it to the end of the playlist. It doesn't however > delete items from the list when they're played (That would break > "Repeat") Ok. > I think "Now playing" makes things fairly obvious, as long as it is > specially identifiable in the list of playlists, and maybe if it gets > jumped to when you "Play" Hmm. Not sure I like the jumping. Maybe have a music note next to it when it's playing. > > Also, should "Now Playing" be used for Radio? And what about regular > > playlists? > > Yes - if you do this then, at least for regular playlists, it means you > can play a particular playlist, but with a few changes, by adding/ > removing songs from the "Now Playing" playlist without affecting the > original. This seems like it'd be fairly confusing...but I could be convinced it's a good idea. At least at first I think we should make "Now Playing" an obvious subcomponent of the library.
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