dean;360972 Wrote: > I convinced Ben to add the dynamic playlist mode (not the party mode, > that was his awesome idea) based on the long standing frustration that > folks have when they accidentally hit the PLAY button when creating a > playlist and lose all their hard work. > > The concept was simple: modify the behavior of the PLAY button when > Squeezebox thinks you are creating a playlist. > > Here's what I proposed: > > 1. The ADD button continues to do exactly what it's done all along > plus... > > 2. The first time you press the ADD button, the behavior of the PLAY > button is modified to... > > 3. do an add-next (i.e. add the selected item to the playlist so as it > will be played immediately after the currently playing song), and not > clear the playlist and... > > 4. stay in this new mode until the user turns off the device, clears > the playlist, saves the playlist or explicitly turns off the mode (from > the settings or with the press-hold of the ADD button as a shortcut) > > The behavior that Philip Meyer saw that caused the ADD button to be > different was not as designed. > > I'd like to get more feedback on this once we get it working reliably. > > > I agree it's not ready to be turned on by default as it stands now, but > as I like to say, it's "good enough to complain about". > > Thanks for your patience and feedback...
I think that come 7.3.x or 7.4 etc. Party Mode could be a much more advanced plugin, as I feel as the system matures, it will shrink in size and become more modular, but i degress. But Dean's idea is great with some tweaks I think. So here's my go at the idea. I feel that we need a mode that will prevent the playlist from in advertently deleted. I don't know how many times I do this. There are several different solutions, one being a copy of the current playlist to allow for an "undo" mechanism. Anothher being the remote changes dean proposes. here's my additions: 3. The ADD button continues to do exactly what it's done all along 1. The first time you press the ADD button and enter PLAYLIST(??) mode, the behavior of the PLAY button is modified to... 2. insert selections into playlist @ the second position and do a next track, and play, and not clear the playlist, 3. The ADD button continues to do exactly what it's done all along 5. stay in this new mode until the user, clears the playlist (how), saves the playlist or explicitly turns off the mode (from the settings). Default (as Ben has said many times): Off/Disabled :-D I always assume new features get added to all sections (Web UI, Controller UI, Remote UI, Display UI, CLI UI, Plugin API)within a couple releases (quick)so some parts are vague. I prefer the remote UI be done first. then followed by UI additions and Advanced Plugin My 2 cents worth ChriS -- saundersc ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saundersc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15479 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55135 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/beta
