RE: Add Folder & Genre Navigation Items

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 20:39, Luke Scott wrote:
> just thought of an addition to this one... I don't know if it's been
> mentioned yet because I'm new to the list, but shouldn't the "My Playlists"
> tree expand all the way to the songs that are on it, the same way that "My
> Music" does? That would allow playing just a subset of a playlist, rather
> than the whole list. It could list the songs singly or grouped by artist.

Yes.. I've always thought so.. I think this would go in with the dynamic
playlist functionality.

I'm thinking about making the tree list being able to expand any number
of levels.    Each internal node would be an m3u node which could
contain other m3u files or  songs at the 
leaf nodes.

Some m3us would be dynamic while others
would be actual files stored somewhere.  

This would also make implementing a directory view tree list much
easier.   

For example, another project I work on,
the edna song server, generates m3u files
on the fly based on the contents of directories.     The we could
simply have a top level directory view
with "My Folders"  as a dynamic
directory m3u.  It would in turn
expand to other directory m3u's
and eventually song files.

I'll see about adding thing functionality to
the musiccatalog next a few weeks after the
2.2.4 release.    After that it mean adding
some gtkbrowserhacking is required.
After that then playlists should expand
whether file based or dynamic as envisioned
above.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Luke Scott
> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: Zinf-Devel
> Subject: [Zinf-devel] Add Folder & Genre Navigation Items
> 
> 
> Add Folder & Genre Navigation Items
> 
> *** Luke Scott - [email protected]
> 
> It would be very easy to add items on the "My Music" navigation panel to
> browse through songs by folder and genre, in the same way as Artists and
> Playlists currently are. "Folders" and "Genres" would be items that are
> displayed beneath "My Playlists".
> 
> "My Folders": each folder that has been identified by the user as a music
> folder (under View->Options->Folders) would be a sub-folder of the "My
> Folders" root. Songs in each folder are listed singly, rather than by
> artist/album like they are in "my music".
> 
> "Genres": Each distinct genre that has been catalogued by ZINF would show up
> as a sub-folder of the "Genres" root, and beneath each genre songs could be
> grouped by artist & album (like they are for "My Music") or listed singly.
> 
> 
> 
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