Re: [PATCH]xmms find song feature

___/ On Sat 21 Oct 2006 18:53:03 BST, [ castorpilot ] wrote : \___

> Hello all,
>
> I have a pretty long playlist and I often look for a particular song in it.
> I grew a bit tired of having to scroll the whole thing, and I wrote a quick
> patch to find a particular song. It prompts for a search string, matches
> the first title that contains this string, selects the song and scrolls the
> playlist window to it. There is also a "Find next" feature.
> The patch is against the 1.2.10 version.
> If anyone is interested, I will try to make it a bit less of a ugly hack :)
>
> Cheers
> Fred

Isn't that what "jump to song" is all about? Just tap J with
XMMS in focus, then enter a substring. AmaroK, for a change,
makes  such  a feature integrated with the playlist. I  look
forward  to  XMMS  2!  I still use XMMS  because  AmaroK  is
bloated (much like iTunes).

Best wishes,

Roy

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