On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 17:53, David Mansfield wrote: > I wouldn't change this. If you double click a song, it would be added to > 'now playing'. If 'now playing' is empty, play mode would be started, and > the icon would appear etc. But if there is already a song playing it > would be queued. Yep. > > With "Now Playing", things get more complicated. > > The library becomes more like a music browser. Should the library even > > have a stop button? Forward/back? How does the user know that songs > > appear in "Now Playing" when he double clicks on them? > > I would thing that 'now playing' is really just the extension of the > library. It is the way the library plays music. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking now too. > I don't know how radio works at all. I don't use it ;-) It's becoming more and more clear to me that different people use (and would like to use) Rhythmbox in quite different ways. Personally, I just use Rhythmbox as basically a fast CD changer. I select an artist and album, and hit Play. Then I go work on something. When that album is done, I switch back to Rhythmbox, select another, then go back to working. Rinse, repeat. But I can totally see how other people would want to queue up a bunch of songs, perhaps several albums, or a mix and match of songs, and then go work on something. That's where you really do need something like "Now Playing". I hope you can see that for people like me (which I assume there must be more of), "Now Playing" is basically just extra complexity for little gain. I might use it if it existed, but certainly I find the current Rhythmbox UI works really well for me. But again, I do want to try to support something like this. We just have to make sure we do it *right*. > Using the 'play now' feature, which would have to be shoe-horned > somewhere. My suggestion: the context-menu for the song/album. Personally, I wouldn't expect the innocuously-named "Play now" to blow away my "Now Playing" list. I'd rather just have the user explicitly remove items from their "Now Playing".
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