Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Interface ideas

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 10:18:05PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Le lundi 18 avril 2005 ? 18:17 +0200, Oliver Lemke a ?crit :
> > > So, winamp, xmms and muine remove songs from what they use as a queue
> > > after playing them? 
> > 
> > Muine does. IIRC it removes the played songs if you hit Ctrl-D.
> 
> Yeah, so do xmms and winamp if you select the songs that have been
> played and hit del or whatever.
> I meant "as soon as they are played"
> 
> Can I get a real reason (ie one which isn't "queue should be that way"
> and "it's cool") now? Please? ;)

>From my point of view, it's a personal preference based on my current
use of playlists.  I want to be able to see what's left in the playlist,
and how long it will run for, and I mostly don't care about songs that
have already been played.  The way I achieve this at the moment is to
manually remove songs once they've been played.

I'm starting to think that you're right that keeping played
songs around would be helpful, but I still don't want to see them.
Or at least I want to have the option of not seeing them.

A "remove played entries" action (rather than setting) might be enough -
it'd let me throw away that history when I decide I don't want it any
more, but wouldn't force me to manually select songs to do it.

> [sorry, I'm probably being a real pita, but well, I mentioned one
> advantage if you keep the played songs in the queue, and noone provided
> any reason for removing the songs from the queue even after me asking
> that for the 3rd or 4th time]

It's always good to have someone insisting on having an actual
justification for these sorts of things.  Thanks for doing it.

-jonathan