On Aug 27, 2008, at 6:08 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:
On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:03, Joshua Juran wrote:
I never used iTunes for OS 9. I used Norman Franke's SoundApp.
(SoundApp was great because it had this really amazing feature
called a "play queue". I'm still waiting for iTunes X to catch up
and include this cutting edge technology.)
Party Shuffle. It's a play queue that fills itself up if you
neglect it. The only problem I have with it is the misleading name.
I think the name (at least the "Shuffle" part) does a great job of
emphasizing where it fails at being a queue (which you just pointed
to): A fetch operation doesn't fail on an empty container. In fact,
the Party Shuffle list is never empty, because it's not just a data
structure, but an input source.
I'll concede that yes, it has a queue internally, but one which is
permanently hard-wired to the Shuffle randomizer and fails to offer
the behavior I expect such as stopping on empty.
I'll also point out that iTunes for iPod lacks Party Shuffle, so even
using the loosest definition of 'queue', it doesn't have one.
Josh
