Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Play Queue Bounty

[Gisli Ottarsson <gisli adams com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:22, James Livingston wrote:
> G'day,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:10 +0000, Gisli Ottarsson wrote:
> > This is precisely how I would use it.  At a party where everyone is a
> > DJ.  Admittedly, each participant would first scan the list to see what
> > is currently in the queue and seeing only the name of the song could 
> > be limiting.
> 
> Now that I think about it the first one I mentioned (the playlist one)
> wouldn't be too much of a problem; the only time I actually use a manual
> playlist is as a queue. I'm sure there are other people who use them
> though. So for me your idea could actually work, but I'm sure there are
> some people who use manual playlists who would be annoyed if we didn't
> think of some way they could add things to a manual playlist.

Perhaps right-mouse on a song could have add-to-playlist in the popup
menu.  Not quite as convenient as drag-and-drop but possibly adequate.
A frequent user would have to say.

> I think I'm going to have to add one thing to my list of things to hack
> into rhythmbox: a scroll bar in the automatic playlist dialog. One of my
> APs has 28 conditions on it. In case you're wondering, it's my list of
> Australian music, hence having a considerable list of band name as its
> conditions.

Ah, sounds like you need to start lobbying for the official recognition
of an 'Aussie music' genre :-)

Gisli