Re: [PATCH]xmms find song feature

Ian Malone <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:24:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ___/ 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).
> 

Sometimes I'd like to jump to a song without playing it.  Not
often though.

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imalone