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Hi,

The grouping is a very good idea. I would like to see it implemented similar to Amarok 2 playlist. See this demo.

It should replace the current "Now playing" addon, as I already suggested in other topic.

Well the section regarding support for small and touch screen devices is rather off-topic, you're right.

But the rest what I suggest is very similar to what has been already written:

1) The now playing list (it is what I call simply playlist) should be in the core. It is a basic functionality.

2) To the suggestions above I would also add a drop down menu to select from multiple playlists. it should contain a "default" playlist and a playlist which will be a copy of the current filter result. Also there should be an option on what to do on doubleclick:

• a) send to default playlist


• b) send to current selected playlist

The next options as already mentioned in previous post should be:

• a) Add to top and start playing


• b) Add after current and play next


• c) Add to end

The idea of multiple active playlists comes from foobar2000. Once you get used on it, you can't live without it. AFAIK there is no other player which supports it.

3) For this to work properly, you need to be able to override the double click action on filters' results. Also currently there is no doubleclik action on the filters associated. I do believe this must be changed in the core.

If it is possible I would like to help with this. What knowledge do I need to create addons? I have some experiences with PHP-GTK and PyGTK in which I created some applications. But I'm not a really good programmer though.

Hi,

I have an idea, which might be close to this one, so I'll post it here.

The latest 0.7 version is very nice but it has some usability issues for me. Especially regarding playlists. Usually I have no idea from which playlist are songs currently playing. As I already posted in bugzilla, Songbird should scroll down to the currently played song and highlight it. But I would go a little further. First let's see my sketch:



As you can see, there's not much difference compared to how Songbird looks now. One small difference is to move the Albumart to the top left corner. Another thing is a playlist panel on the right side. On top there should be a dropdown box with playlists like default, browser results and any other user defined. If a song in the table below browser panels is doubleclicked, it will be added to the right playlist. Also if I doubleclick an album or artist in a browser panel, it should be added to playlist. The playlist should look like the one in Amarok 2.

Then since there are many UMPCs and MIDs computers on their way, I think we would need a different UI for these devices. There 2 big reasons: small display and touch navigation. So I would split the functionality into 3 tabs. My idea is this: