Re: playlist options

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005 01:31:08 +0100, kristian kvilekval <[email protected]>=
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wrote:

> David,
>
>   Is there a preference to turn off receiving a new
> playlist (tab,window) when selecting a playlist item?
>
> If I select an album from MyMusic-<artist>-<album>
> the tracks are added to the main list.  However,
> if I similarly select a playlist, a new window/tab is
> created.  This does not bother me too much
> when using the default view, but I end up
> with too many windows in the classic view.

No, there isn't currently a preference to do that, though I see your poin=
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that there should be. I'll look into it.

>
> In a related issue, I think the option
> "By default queue tracks rather than play..."
>
> should be removed and replaced with separate options:
>
> 1.  Autoclear: clear playlist on track addition
> 2.  Autoplay: Play immediately on track addition

Seems reasonable, but is Autoclear without Autoplay really a needed =20
option? Would it be be clearer to have 3 possible modes equivalent to =20
autoclear+autoplay, autoplay, neither?

> Finally, aren't the options
> "Save current playlist..." and  "Open file to Last Selection"
> related options, something like
>  autorestore: "Restore last playlist on startup"

I think "Open file to Last Selection" actually means that the file =20
open/save dialog remembers what directory it was in last time, so isn't =20
really a Playlist option, but a MusicBrowser option. So "Save current =20
playlist..." is actually the same as your proposed "Restore last playlist=
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on startup"

> These changes would mean:
>
> on startup:
>     if autorestore and  there was previous playlist
> then   restore as current playlist
>
> on track_add:
>
>    if autoclear then remove previous entries
>    if autoplay then play first track:
>
>
> This might make it easier in the future to do the right
> thing when drag-n-drop is added i.e. whether to clear
> the playlist when new items are dragged in.  Shift-drag
> might clear the autoclear flag during the drag for example.

I think this might need some more thought, as if theres a keyboard =20
shortcut to clear the Autoclear flag, why not one to turn it on, or =20
possibly toggle it instead. And what about the autoplay flag, shouldn't =20
that have a shortcut? But yeah, good idea all the same.

> And even more finally, all these options should be moved
> to the playlist option tab...

Yeah, the prefs dialog could do with updating with a number of options =20
 from musicdb/musicbrowsermm as well.

Cheers,
David
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