On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 20:45 +1000, Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> - A "queue" playlist type that just removes songs as they're played.
> This would be what you'd use to queue up more than just a few songs.
> It wouldn't preempt the playing source like the current queue does;
> you'd have to stop the playing source, select the queue playlist, and
> press play.
I think this sounds like a good plan, because it makes the queue-source
what it really is a "slightly magical" playlist.
After thinking about it the auto-removing playlist also lets you (by
putting it on shuffle) do a "I don't care about the order, but don't
play any song twice" thing. Which is particularly good for the party
music case. And you could drag a song to the queue to get the "play now"
functionality.
> - There's no way for a new user who discovers the queue sidebar to find
> out that if they're queueing up five hours of listening material, they'd
> be better off using a playlist. Perhaps a "convert queue to playlist"
> option somewhere obvious to lead the user into thinking "huh, what's a
> playlist?", then figuring it out. I don't know where this would go,
> though.
My suggestion would be to add it to the context menu for queue
items/empty space.
One possible other problem would be what to do when the auto-removing
playlist becomes empty. The logical thing to do would be to stop
playing, but the best thing for parties would be to do the current
queue-as-source thing of playing off another playlist. Not that I'd have
this problem at parties - everyone always want to add their favourite
music, and my playlist has about 20 hours of music by the end of the
night.
James "Doc" Livingston
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