Re: MusicBrowserMM Status

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:21, David Hough wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been doing some work on the new browser, and I've finally got to the 
> stage where no more structual changes need to be made, I hope anyway. So 
> as the code in the cvs was serverly out of date and the browser code is 
> almost as fully functional as the original browser, I've updated the cvs 
> copy to the most recent in my arch tree.

For lots of details on whats changed you can look through the log messages 
> in my arch tree http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~djh123/zinf/
> But probably easiest just to try it out
> 
> Unfortunately there is still plenty of stuff that needs to be done, 
> including (in some sort of rough priority on my part in case anyone feels 
> like taking any of it on :) )
> * Respond to messages asking for dialogs e.g. CMD_AddFiles, 
> INFO_FileNotFound
> * Edit Info/Search For Music/Intro Wizard dialogs

I have a hacked up version of these edit info that allows 
editing arbitrary tags instead the fixed set that are supported now.  
I wanted this as Ogg and Flax both allow arbitrary tags.
Still not ready for primetime, but it will get there.

> * Make playback controls toolbar look better and more functional
> * CD Support

I started with the CD support, at some point I'll get back to it.

> * Dialog to allow editing of custom layouts
> * Drag & Drop support
> * Keyboard support e.g. making delete key remove items in playlist, etc..
> 
> Some extra features (as compared to original musicbrowser)
> * Can use as primary UI
> * Customisable toolbar
> 
> And lots of bug fixing as well.
> 
> The musicdb backend to all this still needs plenty of work as well, 
> obviously, but I'm attempting to get the browser at least up to the 
> original musicbrowser functionality before helping out with that code.

Oh yes.. In fact it needs alot of work so that it can start to show off
a little.  

BTW I noticed a new behavior.   When opening the playlist branch
in the browser, the browser appears to query the database for each URL.
Is this needed, I would expect the entire set of playlists to returned
from a single query?  (I noticed that this makes it a bit slower when
scrolling around).


> Any comments would be appreciated including bug reports, so please do feel 
> free to try it out.

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