Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Jukebox playlist

[Jacob Emcken <jacob emcken dk>]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 06:38, Jacob Emcken wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I don't really use playlists because I like just to listen to all my 
> > music and let Rhythmbox shuffle through it.
>
>
> Yeah, I think that's a really common use case for Rhythmbox.  More
> common than I'd realized up until fairly recently.
>
>
> > I think it could be great to have some sort of jukebox playlist where 
> > you could drag songs to. 
>
>
> So I'd been thinking recently about supporting this.  Here's a start,
> just to get discussion going:
>
> http://web.rhythmbox.org/uidesign/
>
> I think the overall key idea is that I really like the browser
> interface, and we should focus a lot on that.

Why not make i a source where you could drag songs to?
Then the funcionality is keept alike the rest. No need to discover a 
brand new way of doing things to use the jukebox. This way we keep the 
UI like  it is (which i think is great).

I thought that you could make the context menu (right mouse click menu) 
i the library contain something like this:

Context menu:
Copy
Delete
-------------
Browse...   >
Play...     >
Jukebox     >
-------------
Properties


Browse... menu:
This genre
This artist
This album

Play... menu:
This genre
This artist
This album

Jukebox menu:
Add song to Jukebox
Add genre to jukebox
Add artist to jukebox
Add album to jukebox

For all it should ofcourse be possible to select multiple 
songs/artists/genres.



I like the idear to se the number Rhythmbox would like to play next time 
but not the idear that it should take up extra space in the UI.

It think alternativliy you could make the text:
Next: [artist] - [title]

roll down where the current song artist and title is displayed for some 
seconds and then roll back to the normal text displaying the current 
playing song. Then we use the the space already reserved for displaying 
song title and artists.
This it not only something usable to jukebox functionality.



What is the difference between Shuffle and the jukebox functionality?
What if when you check the shuffle checkbox Rhythmbox uses the jukebox 
playlist (or we could call it shuffle playlist).
Here it think of a list like the one 'David Hammerton' linked to from 
iTunes.
This would add extra functionality but not alter any current 
functionality. The current users of Shuffle wouldn't notice/feel/see a 
difference if they didn't knew.
They would still get shuffled songs the could still just click on a song 
in their library to play it if they wanted.

I think that when you double click on a song in the Music library it 
should start playing right away (not being added to the queue).
For ease of use we could ad at Ctrl + Mouse double click would add the 
song to the jukebox playlist og drag'n'drop or the context menu above.



> The proposal above leaves a lot out (including the search bar I just
> noticed).

The search bar isn't needed in the jukebox play list is it?


Hope you can use my feedback.
--Jacob Emcken