So I've been talking about this on and off on IRC about wanting a tag based player.
My idea would be remove Genre all together and just make it a tag. Tag could default to either last.fm, musicbrainz, or id3 type information as default. I would probably use musicbrainz as the default rather than id3 or tags and then have it changed by a "view by.." menu item. Shaun McCance has written up something on tag based players and would be a good source to come up with how to do it nicely since his music collection is probably on the extreme end. sri On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 04:22:19PM -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > Hi Sam, > > I think you have some very good ideas here. Some comments inline. > > Sam Thursfield wrote: > [snip] > >* One important thing I was going to implement is tagging. I know > >tagging has turned into some kind of meaningless internet buzzword at > >the moment but I have a few actual uses for it. Such as, sometimes I > >have the urge to play guitar over records for a while. It's only certain > >songs though and I thought the best solution is to tag these songs with > >"guitar" or something. Then I simply filter for that tag and my problem > >is solved. I'm sure there are some other good uses too (perhaps it could > >be used instead of genres like on last.fm <http://last.fm>? Though I'm > >not interested in this feature personally.) I have a couple of songs I > >only listen to at Christmas as well. An xmas tag that I filtered out for > >50 weeks of the year would sort that out. So I think they would be > >pretty useful. > > Good idea. I've created a new bug for this: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324540 > > [snip] > >* I don't like how the artist name and album are links to last.fm > ><http://last.fm>. The first time I used them there was a song playing > >and on the spur of the moment I decided I wanted to listen to the entire > >album. So I clicked the button, thinking it would have the same effect > >as hunting for it in the browser window, and instead a browser pops up > >and totally throws me off. I appreciate the idea of having links to the > >last.fm <http://last.fm> pages but I also really want to be able to > >browse to the current artist/album without searching through a tiny > >listbox or typing the whole name. Maybe we can solve this using a right > >click menu or something. (and see also: > >http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317517 about last.fm > ><http://last.fm> links for arbitrary songs) > > Good idea. I've created a new bug for this: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324542 > > [snip] > >* The little speaker icon (and its counterpart the no entry > >sign) is mentioned in bugzilla here: > >http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144181 > >Originally I thought it was a big waste of space and could be replaced > >by just making the entry bold. (Though I seem to remember that's a huge > >pain with a GTK listview for some reason.) Then I realised it could be > >pretty useful for showing > >a song's position in the queue, there's the little no entry sign, etc. > >So I don't remember why I brought this up. > > This column is also used for the playback error indicator. Not that > boldface is a bad idea... > > [snip] > > - The "last played" field is silly, it should be a friendly date > >like the ones in the the new GTK file select dialog etc. Seeing all > >these 2005-12-17 is way too technical for a music player, I want > >"yesterday" and "two days ago" etc. > > Completely agree with you. This has been happening piecemeal over the > last few months. Here's the final bit: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324534 > > Good stuff. > > Jon > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel -- _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
