On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 12:12 +0000, Gisli Ottarsson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 11:24, James Livingston wrote: > > 1) Playlists :- how are you supposed to add things to a playlist > > (instead of drag-and-drop)? > > Touche. I supposed my lack of experience with playlists has been > demonstrated. Oh well. This is the biggie, playlists are one of those things that some people use and some people don't. I use them a fair bit, and if changing playlists was harder than it currently is I would find it annoying. This discussion about the queue has gotten me inspired to do some Rhythmbox hacking; one I get the work I'm busy with out of the way in the next week I might have a go at fixing some of annoyances that we've got with playlists at the moment: not being able to sort, or use the browser on a playlist, and not having a song in more than once (for manual playlists). > > 2) You only have the name of the song there, and I've got quite a few > > songs that have the same name (and different artists). On my setup the > > Title and Artist columns take up about 45-50% of the width of the > > columns in the library. > > Is this tremendously important? Obviously, once the song starts > playing, its information will be shown in the 'now playing' area. When > you dragged the song to the queue you had all this information. The > only time you might wonder whose rendition of 'Misty' is in the queue > is when it was added there by another user, or by Shuffle. In the > latter case, there is certainly no lack of functionality. Today you > have no idea what songs Suffle-mode will play next, with this you would > at least know the name of the song. I suppose the full informatioqueue for more than n of > the song could be provided as a tip-text (the type that pops up when > you hover over an area), for the intensely curious. The main time I'd use the queue for more than one song is for a party or something, and from my experience with that (using a playlist as a mock "queue") plenty of different people come and play with it over the course of time. Having the info in a tool-top would be acceptable though. Cheers, James "Doc" Livingston -- He's dead Jim! You get his phaser, I got his wallet.
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