I do 90% of what you want to do today with no changes.
I play from genre playlists on 'shuffle song'. When I hear something I
especially like, I just toggle to 'shuffle none'. After a time, I go
back to 'shuffle song'. There is no awkward dragging albums to the play
queue or anything like that. In fact, I rarely use the play queue
except for special occassions.
The only thing this method doesn't do is play tracks from the beginning
of the album, however, that is easily accomplished with a double click.
Am I missing something?
On 10-12-09 09:32 AM, Neil McKenzie wrote:
After some further thought, it would probably be cleanest
to implement this within the Play Queue, rather than messing around
with deleting from the play queue, toggling shuffle, and changing
artist and album selections in the library.
If I leave the Play Queue set to 'Fill by song', the features I
am after break down to:
(1) A 'Queue and Play' function in the library which could
ideally be be applied to a song, artist, album or selection. This would
queue the current selection after the currently playing song, and skip
the playing song (if any).
(2) A 'Play this album' function, which would enqueue everything
with the same album name as the playing song, after the playing song,
and skip the playing song.
(3) Personally I would also want a 'Skip this album' function,
so that if i get bored half-way through an album i could instantly go
back to shuffle.
Any thoughts?
Neil.
On 9 December 2010 13:38, Neil McKenzie <neilbags gmail com>
wrote:
Hi
Gabriel,
Yeah i am aware of how this can be done with the queue, but it
seems clumsy.
E.g. if i am playing an album in the queue and it finishes, it
will shuffle by song. Then when a song I like comes on and I want to
play the album, I need to:
Click 'Music'
Locate or search for the album
Drag it to the Queue
Click 'Play Queue'
Double-click the first song
And if I want to go back to shuffle when i'm mid-album, i have
to select-all, delete the queue, then hit next. What make it even
worse, is that when I drag an album to the Play Queue, it remains
selected under Music. So when the album finishes it starts playing the
same album again!
Neil.
On 9 December 2010 13:22, Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>
wrote:
Hi Neil,
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Neil McKenzie < neilbags gmail com>
wrote:
> (1) When an album finishes, i don't want playback to stop. I would
like to
> instead turn on 'Shuffle by Song', select 'All Artists' and 'All
Albums'.
> I'm currently using the 'Music' category in the left pane rather
than the
> 'Play Queue', as it seems a clumsy way to select and play whole
albums.
or in the upcoming 1.9.1 release, click them and press `q` or
right-click them and 'Add to Play Queue'. As of Banshee 1.9.0 you can
also "Play After" the current playing Track, Album, or Artist (which
modifies your play queue appropriately).
> (2) Whilst in 'Shuffle by Song' mode, I would like a quick way
(button,
> shortcut key) to select the album that the song is currently
playing belongs
> to, and play it from the beginning to end. Obviously switching off
shuffle
> by song.
You should be able to just add the album to the queue; when the song
is done, the play queue will start playing, and when it's finished
(assuming you have it in manual mode) playback will return to your
Music or playlist.
I'm sure our UI/UX isn't perfect, so if you have any suggestions or do
come up w/ some patches, that's great!
Gabriel
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