Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature suggestion: Random playback in the scope of albums

["Jason Bodnar" <jason shakabuku org>]

On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:15:50 +0200, Jan Rathmann wrote
> I also have already made up my mind about how this feature could be 
> integrated in the GUI of Rhythmbox. In Amarok it is solved the way 
> that there is a small icon in the lower window corner which toggles 
> the current play mode between "normal" "random (song scope)" and 
> "random 
> (album scope)" when you click on it. This fits well to the user 
> interface of Amarok, but I am not sure if it would also fit to the 
> one of Rhythmbox. Maybe it could be solved by adding a additional 
> button next to the one that is already there to enable random 
> playback, called "Play albums in random order" (or something like 
> this). If this button is clicked, then the random-button for songs 
> would automatically be "unpressed" if random song playback was 
> enabled (and vice versa).

What if the current random button triggered a drop down list with the
different types of random playback? For now, it would be two but I'm sure
other people might like to add some in the future.

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Jason Bodnar
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