Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] My Rhythmbox Hacking ToDo

[Jonatan Magnusson <jonatan pnx se>]

> * Allowing you to have more complicated playlist conditions than a
> simple A and B and C, or A or B or C. I don't think it'd be that hard to
> do, but designing a UI that makes sense could be very difficult. A
> possible simpler version could allow conditions of the type "Is in
> playlist A" and "Isn't in playlist B"; although this could lead to nasty
> circular references (urgh).
> 

Best place to find inspiration for the ui I'd say is the filter editor
of Evolution. It is used for pretty much the same task, only mail
instead of songs.

> * Allowing you to drag an Artist/Album/Genre into an automatic playlist,
> and have it ask you whether you want to add it as a criteria (this makes
> less sense with "And" playlists). Also being able to drag a song, and
> having it ask whether you want to add the Artist/Album/Genre/Just this
> song/whetever might be nice.
> 

This functionality was available in 0.8.5 (If i remember correctly. Not
quite sure about which version it was) but was removed/stopped working
in the next version.

> 2) Does tag editing work at all? I passed the configure option, but I
> haven't seen anywhere you can edit them (i.e. the properties dialog). I
> know this is [probably] still under development so don't expect much.
> 

Works for me.

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Jonatan Magnusson <jonatan pnx se>
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