Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Interface ideas

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan kaolin hn org>]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:37:13PM +1000, James Livingston wrote:

> In regard to the recent discussion of having the as-a-source variant
> show previously played songs: as far as I can tell, we already have
> that; it's called a playlist.
> 
> Possibly I'm missing something, but is there any feature that it (if
> keeping history) would provide that isn't done by a playlist at the
> moment? Up until the queue got implemented everyone had to use a simple
> playlist to get that functionality and it's always worked well for me.

Playlists don't show history well in anything other than linear play
order.  That's the only difference I can think of.

Hmm.. history is just an automatic playlist with time last played < 1
day ago.  I guess things might get a bit weird if you start
playing songs from it, though.

-jonathan