[Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox, and ideas..

[James Livingston <jrl ids org au>]

On 15/08/2005, at 7:24 AM, Harry Lassen ( Dezral ) wrote:

> i love the way it is to work with, but i have 3 things i would like to 
> see improved..
>
> 1. some way to make a playlist out of albums, maybe even artist.

Jonathan Matthew has been doing some work on this, and there is a patch 
attached to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147337. It lets 
you drag albums, artist and genres to the source list which creates an 
automatic playlist for that album/artist/genre. There was also a patch 
posted to the mailing list abut two weeks ago, which added a menu item 
to create a playlist from the currently selected genres, artists and 
albums.

> 2. fade in and out ting...between numbers.

Crossfading, or even just gapless playback is something that has been 
requested for quite a while. I'm not aware of any work that has been 
done towards this - amaroK has support for this with it's GStreamer 
backend, but I don't think it's as easy as just borrowing some of their 
code.

> 3. a queue method, like what the next track i want to here is... 
> something like the "BMP" queue troggle... 1.2.3.4 and so on...

There was some work (also by Jonathan) done a few months ago, which was 
in the "merge" arch branch. There were some issues that never got 
resolved (how it fits in the UI) and I think he wanted to clean it up 
before proposing it for cvs. We should see this some time in the 
future, but when i'm not sure.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston