Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature Request: Play follow selection

[Jonathan Matthew <jonathan d14n org>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> Hey guys!
> 
> First of all, congratulations on Rhythmbox! I love it and it works
> wonders!
> 
> I would like to ask for a feature:
> 
> Can you, please, add, to the "Control" menu, the "Play follows
> selection" option?
> 
> This option should play the, currently, highlighted song(s). This is a
> really cool feature; implemented on foobar2000
> (http://www.foobar2000.org/), which is, too, an open source project;
> sadly, aimed only for windows.

Can you explain a little more about how it works, and in what situation
you'd use it?  It sounds like it might overlap somewhat with the
existing play queue in rhythmbox, which would make me reluctant to
implement it.