Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Feature suggestion: Random playback in the scope of albums

[Jan Rathmann <JanRathmann t-online de>]

Jason Bodnar schrieb:
> On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:15:50 +0200, Jan Rathmann wrote
>   
> > I also have already made up my mind about how this feature could be 
> > integrated in the GUI of Rhythmbox. In Amarok it is solved the way 
> > that there is a small icon in the lower window corner which toggles 
> > the current play mode between "normal" "random (song scope)" and 
> > "random 
> > (album scope)" when you click on it. This fits well to the user 
> > interface of Amarok, but I am not sure if it would also fit to the 
> > one of Rhythmbox. Maybe it could be solved by adding a additional 
> > button next to the one that is already there to enable random 
> > playback, called "Play albums in random order" (or something like 
> > this). If this button is clicked, then the random-button for songs 
> > would automatically be "unpressed" if random song playback was 
> > enabled (and vice versa).
> >     
>
> What if the current random button triggered a drop down list with the
> different types of random playback? For now, it would be two but I'm sure
> other people might like to add some in the future.
>   
Would of course also be fine (For me personally it wouldn't be that 
important how exactly the UI integration is solved ;-) ).

Kind regards,
Jan