Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] "Now Playing" Item in Source List

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli adams com>]

This suggestion has been floated a few times by different people. It
has been called the play queue or a Jukebox mode.  It has not yet made
a sufficient impression on the people that matter and make things
happen to find its way in.

In the most recent flurry, I piped in with:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2004-May/msg00147.html

which I just re-read and still seems like a good idea.  The mock-up
pointed to in the message is no longer accessible, but a slightly
modified version now lives here. 

http://php.internet.is/gleipnir/Jukebox.png

Gisli



On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 03:54, Rene Valois wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I had an idea tonight, take from it what you will. I'm only a happy
> user, not a developer.
> 
> What if, in the source list, there was a "Now Playing" item? Clicking on
> this item would, obviously, show the song that is currently playing.
> 
> It's a list that is always there, but it's contents are always changing.
> The way it is right now, if a user wants to queue up a few songs, he has
> to create a new empty playlist, or clear an already existing playlist.
> This way the user can keep all their current playlists and just add
> stuff to "Now Playing" if they want to queue it up.
> 
> The list is always there, but it's contents are always changing. Right
> now, if a user wants to queue up a few songs, he has to create a new
> empty playlist, or clear an already existing playlist, and start adding
> songs. This way the user can keep all their current playlists untouched
> and just add stuff to "Now Playing". 
> 
> Now let's say I have a playlist called "foo", which I start playing.
> "Now Playing" would now show the currently playing song at the top, and
> all the next songs in the queue would be showing after it.
> 
> The list would start out empty when you first start rhythmbox, until you
> start playing something. You could just drag a file to "Now Playing" and
> it would start playing.
> 
> What's the advantage to this, you ask? Now I can DJ. No matter where I
> am in Rhythmbox, I drag a song there and I'll hear it. It's sort of like
> the "Master Playlist". 
> 
> It could also come in handy for double clicking a file in nautilus. I
> double click "blah.mp3", and it shows up as the only song in "Now
> Playing" (until I add more stuff), but it isn't added to the database
> yet.
> 
> Not quite sure how shuffle mode would work...
> 
> Anyhow, just a thought. What do you guys think?
> 
> Rene
> 
> 
> 
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