Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] A whole bunch of stuff

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi Sam,

I think you have some very good ideas here.  Some comments inline.

Sam Thursfield wrote:
[snip]
> * One important thing I was going to implement is tagging. I know 
> tagging has turned into some kind of meaningless internet buzzword at 
> the moment but I have a few actual uses for it. Such as, sometimes I 
> have the urge to play guitar over records for a while. It's only certain 
> songs though and I thought the best solution is to tag these songs with 
> "guitar" or something. Then I simply filter for that tag and my problem 
> is solved. I'm sure there are some other good uses too (perhaps it could 
> be used instead of genres like on last.fm <http://last.fm>? Though I'm 
> not interested in this feature personally.) I have a couple of songs I 
> only listen to at Christmas as well. An xmas tag that I filtered out for 
> 50 weeks of the year would sort that out. So I think they would be 
> pretty useful.

Good idea.  I've created a new bug for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324540

[snip]
> * I don't like how the artist name and album are links to last.fm 
> <http://last.fm>. The first time I used them there was a song playing 
> and on the spur of the moment I decided I wanted to listen to the entire 
> album. So I clicked the button, thinking it would have the same effect 
> as hunting for it in the browser window, and instead a browser pops up 
> and totally throws me off. I appreciate the idea of having links to the 
> last.fm <http://last.fm> pages but I also really want to be able to 
> browse to the current artist/album without searching through a tiny 
> listbox or typing the whole name. Maybe we can solve this using a right 
> click menu or something. (and see also: 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317517 about last.fm 
> <http://last.fm> links for arbitrary songs)

Good idea.  I've created a new bug for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324542

[snip]
> * The little speaker icon (and its counterpart the no entry
> sign) is mentioned in bugzilla here: 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144181
> Originally I thought it was a big waste of space and could be replaced 
> by just making the entry bold. (Though I seem to remember that's a huge 
> pain with a GTK listview for some reason.) Then I realised it could be 
> pretty useful for showing
> a song's position in the queue, there's the little no entry sign, etc. 
> So I don't remember why I brought this up.

This column is also used for the playback error indicator.  Not that 
boldface is a bad idea...

[snip]
>     - The "last played" field is silly, it should be a friendly date 
> like the ones in the the new GTK file select dialog etc. Seeing all 
> these 2005-12-17 is way too technical for a music player, I want 
> "yesterday" and "two days ago" etc.

Completely agree with you.  This has been happening piecemeal over the 
last few months.  Here's the final bit:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324534

Good stuff.

Jon