Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Automatic Playlist UI work

["S.P. van Noort" <S P vanNoort phys uu nl>]

Hi,

What are your thoughts about more complicated automatic playlists where
you can group certain elements. For example a query like this is as far
as I know not possible in the current layout:

  All songs from Queen or Radiohead with more than 3 stars

In a query-form:

  (artist="Queen" or artist="Radiohead") and rating>=3.0

I guess the problem is not so much in the code, as well in finding a
intuitive GUI for it. 

Greetings,

Sander

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 19:19 +0200, Oliver Lemke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 23:04 +1000, James Livingston wrote:
> > I think I've pretty much got everything apart from polish done on the
> > playlist criteria - so if you see anything like bugs, typos, defaults
> > that could have better values, etc. let me know.
> 
> Does the filtering by Artist, Title, Genre or Album work for you? I get
> a segfault everytime I select one of those from the options menu. The
> attached patch fixes it here.
> 
> The Rating criteria has some rounding problems. Some examples:
> 
> 1. Selecting 'Rating equals 3' creates an empty playlist.
> 2. Selecting 'Rating is at least 4' shows all 5 star songs but not all 4
> star songs
> 3. Selecting 'Rating is less than 3' still adds a lot of 3 star songs to
> the playlist.
> 
> 
> Some thoughts about usability: At the moment, it is not possible to
> remove the last criteria in the list because there's no remove button.
> Maybe the Add button can be moved up beside the top label and a remove
> button could be placed beside _each_ criteria similar to how it works in
> evolution's filter editor.
> 
> 
> And finally: The 'First Seen' criteria is drop-dead gorgeous! :-) Just a
> small remark (I know I'm getting on your nerves, sorry). Selecting
> 'First seen in the last 1 week' and limiting the list to 20 songs, I
> would expect to get the latest 20 songs which were added to the library.
> Currently, more or less arbitrary songs end up in the list. If this is
> something that will be solved with your work on the sorting, just forget
> it for now.
> 
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