Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Opinions

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:14:30AM -0300, Alvaro Muñoz wrote:
> I just wrote this on the IRC channel. I hope someone reads it..
> 
> "I just came here to tell some ideas, so I hope people read this 
> whenever they can...
> I think rhythmbox is not a "everyday" use media player.
> Maybe because im used to the "eject" button. Have you ever thought about 
> setting the Library aside from a playlist? The library could have some 
> configured directories from where to read the files.
> The user could then select the author or album he wants to play just by 
> double clicking on it. This would place the album/selected songs in the 
> main playlist.

Yeah, thats one of the things personally that I wanted to do, but
been too busy to do the split.  Make a common backend that people
can use to write any frontend to interface with.

I'm thinking something like f-spot which allows you to add all kinds
of metadata to each song and be able to group them in infinite ways.

> An eject button would allow the user to clear the main playlist, add 
> some songs (just those songs) without adding them to the library. That 
> way, the library is not considered as some kind of playlist.
> I say this because my family has had a lot of problems just playing a 
> song in rhythmbox. A double click on the song isnt enough. Selecting 
> several songs and then "right-click > play" doesnt work neither. The 
> "main playlist" along with an "eject" button would be a very nice idea 
> to implement. I hope it gets implemented on future versions :)"

Please put this in bugzilla. :-)

sri