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This is great news... or atleast half of it is.

Im really looking forward to seeing it.

thanks :-)

good stuff... i really like it!

ummm... uhh.... like this is really awesome!!

agree with putting web search results last.

Maybe typing "wikipedia" or 'wiki' starts to invoke a wiki search like ubiquity – TheParadox2, on June 29, 2009 13:55

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This kinda makes me mad... songbird doesn't have an awesome bar... does it?

not that i know of, but i've proposed an idea that would let you create a play list (the now playing play list) and drag and drop a tag on it: thus tagging the items.

My request (Here: http://getsatisfaction.com/songbird/t...) for a new playlist item, which is a list of items YOU want to play, but it aslo points out some more flexibility with these playlists such as a a 'mass tag' or 'mass rate' as your asking.

I've thought about this, and had a lengthy discussion with some friends over it, basically we all agreed on this method and combination:

1) Enqueue in a play list.

2) Display results or

3) Only play the item and then stop.

Take an album or a whole artist... it makes sense to treat these like play lists soo...lets create a play list (Call it, the "Now Playing" play list), and play it like a normal play list (Shuffle, repeat apply). When its done, its done. When the user wants a change or switch to another artist/album... he simply repeats the process... This falls under "play and quit".

This doesn't make sense with single songs (although I think I'd use it a lot personally). So maybe we can we can bounce this off the a playlist somehow, but also provide some flexibility for the user. It also should be simple, quick, and obvious.

1) If nothing is playing, adding the song to the "now playing play list" and play the song. Same as an album, whole artist, or another playlist - we're being redundant and giving the same results.

2) if a song is playing, we should either enqueue to the playlist, or jump directly to it... rather than telling the user, we can make allow specific methods for this:

2a) Hitting enter is the same thing as hitting play. (Basically, Hittingenter is a "stop all and play" mechanism - We've built a common theme).

2b) Ok, maybe its not expected, SOOoo... we need a Fall back Mechanism!! If this kills your "now playing" play list, lets use those darn navigation buttons and "back out" to where we were happy with the list and try again.

one problem, its smart and simple, but is it 'obvious'? I don't think so. It might be confusing too. Does this interfere with the current back/forth method? or does it work with it?

It seems to follow the 'natural flow' of things, but basically we're cutting out the 'navigate library history' method, and putting in 'navigate the now playing list history'

Its close to the same function, but its not... so is it an improvement?

3) Drag & Drop: This can be an artist, album, song, playlist (What about tags... ratings?!) It can be as simple as dragging the album/artist artwork icon and dropping it:

3a) on the now playing playlist.
3b) on the library pane.
3c) on a different, personal playlist.
3d) again fall backs... the nav buttons. (Redundancy)

4) Menus... you can right click on the item and have you way with it (play, enqueue)

5) Icons: A simple + icon means you add it to the list.

I think the "now playing" playlist is a good idea (although basically, thats atleast 1 feature that needs to be added).

Feedback?!

Then we can rate by most commonly played songs... Theres a play count built in :p – TheParadox2, on June 28, 2009 16:14

I didn't realize there was a port of ubiquity to songbird... I think as ubiquity/taskfox/taskbird makes it out of the labs and into the wild, we'll see some really amazing feedback and features pulled out, some from the public, but maybe some from web developers themselves.

Im getting excited about it. Its different and really 'out of the box' thinking.
I've been slow to take up ubiquity, but I'm really starting to like it. Its basically what i was looking for...

It needs just needs some love. – TheParadox2, on June 26, 2009 16:12

This is AWESOME... its really happening!....That tag cloud add-on was released a few days ago! I know the chances of the add-on being developed from my feed back are slim, but people are really taking this stuff up because they know its missing!

wow! freaking awesome... its really coming together.

Merged concepts...

wow, some really good points. The album art idea is great! i never thought about that... it makes a lot of sense! In fact, going back to the framework this is based off of, Firefox, the favicon is displayed in the list, so it would/should have been natural to include artwork.

+1 to album artwork.

You also got another one on me searching play lists as an item as well.

+1 for searching play lists as well as songs, artists, albums, meta

More items... "Quick Search Box uses the "more items" method like in your mockup, but I just feel like it makes you do too much unnecessary navigating."

I agree that a "more items" usually does create some "unnecessary navigating". The original idea behind it was for very vague results to spawn into a new tab... for example searching "Beatles" and hitting "More Items" gives every song/album - whatever because this list is supposed to be short, sweet and simple. I wanna listen to song "xyz123" so if I type "xy" and hit down and enter... I've pretty much got it. My focus is clearly on the song as a single entity. you can tell by reading the first line in my original statement: "I don't like having to dig through my library"

Your method of having the arrows really does the same thing as what I'm proposing, just with a different method and focus. Your focus is simplicity & generalization where i like viewing data and trying to get very specific results.

For example your Beatles query produces the entire artist as a single "entity", A specific song (I'm guessing ranked high), 3 albums and a play list.

The same query on my method probably produces the 5 top played songs, The artist as a whole, 2 commonly played albums... and now with your input a play list.

I'm not saying your wrong. Its just different. I'd prefer a new tab or filtering the current library tab if you don't wanna hunt the menu. You like a menu driven interface, its as simple as just hit over like on a traditional menu and see "the top 5 that follow some criteria". You have to keep in mind, some people will have over 10,000 songs... There are people with over 150 gigs of music.

Both are equally good ideas. I just really want the same functionality thats close to firefox.

Bug 16924 basically reiterates what I said and can be used to tracked this progress. I've changed some minor details and I like the tags detail Murphy pointed out.

...alright... i see on the dlna.org site... after a read through, its on both UPnP and DLNA wikipedia pages as well.

"The UPnP AV standards have been referenced in specifications published by other organizations including Digital Living Network Alliance Networked Device Interoperability Guidelines[7], International Electrotechnical Commission IEC 62481-1 [8], and Cable Television Laboratories OpenCable Home Networking Protocol [9]."

Thanks for the correction. I thought i understood this stuff.