On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 21:54 -0500, Thomas Lunde wrote: > On 4/19/05, James Livingston <jrl ids org au> wrote: > > Duration: may be of use), probably add > > Yes, please. Now that I think about it, it probably isn't that useful by itself (e.g. all songs more than 2 minutes and less than three minutes long?), but might probably be useful as a additional criteria for trimming down playlists (don't show really short/long songs or something). > > Track and Disc number: I doubt I'd use them, maybe other would? > > I use these a lot when I'm using iTunes. They are especially handy > when building compilation discs/playlists. I was guessing that someone would probably want this; it's only about three or four lines of (very simple) code. Some of these I was only asking just to make sure we didn't add pointless options to the list. > > Bitrate: Not very useful (especially for .oggs or VBR mp3s, etc) > > If we have filesize, then bitrate is unnecessary & the reverse is > true. I think that as Christophe pointed out, bitrate is handy to > have visible when there are two copies of a given track and you know > you want to delete one... but which? Having them visible as a columns is actually a separate (but kind of related) thing to what I was doing. It's basically a case of adding it to the preferences window, I'll add it to my list of things to do (if no-one else does it first). I can see how bitrate might be useful though - show all low bitrate tracks (so you can rip them at a higher bitrate), or add a high-bitrate-only condition to a playlist. I less sure about anyone actually wanting to filter on filesize though. As Christophe said Rhythmbox doesn't do too well with bitrates at the moment; vorbis(.ogg) and other VBR formats all report 0, which means you'd probably have to add an exception to the criteria (unless you have an entirely CBR-mp3 format music library) Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --Charles Babbage
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