Hey Keith, Hey Ryan, for my feeling we are talking about two different features or use cases looking at the high end solutions when finished:
1.) "DJs best friend" who answers the question which song suites best as next track 2.) "Advanced Search" for "I now a fitting song but ... what was its titel? " for 1.) As discussed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/889898. I like the Idea to have the special view, only taking screen space (and CPU) if the DJ explicit ask "his best friend". Also I like the "automatic" part of this approach. Keith did good step heading in this direction. As already requested by Jens we should add an additional crate selection. What about having a (static) preselected set of Crates for the evening. And a quick selectable active Crate. At the "Active Library Filter GUI" you can just select "From All Crates", "From Set Crates", "From Active Crates". Changing the Crates state itself can be done via crate context menu like "Lock" today. (By the Way: The (static) preselected Set of Crates could be also use to move parts of the library to a netbook or stick for your next guest session GSoC: "Library Database Management") @Keith: do you have already a filter for rating? (At least ..) With this state we are prepared to do the next step and adding math to the Active Library Filter. Like weight the current song metatdata and the metadata of the song before .. and so on. for 2.) I think it is right that the library search feature from ~bloodybeet/mixxx/features_search is powerful but not self explaining. (I have never used it). A drawer like GUI for tuning the search statement will be very useful. Clementine-player has a nice search GUI, not suitable as it is but maybe a good starting point. Kind regards, Daniel Am 22.03.2012 04:00, schrieb keithsalisb...@gmail.com: > Hey Ryan, > > Thanks! > > I really like the idea of linking it up to the new search stuff - > makes perfect sense really - and that way the "active" part of "active > filter" is just that its listening to the currentDeckPlaying event. As > for UI stuff - I'll have a play around, I've never been much of a UI > developer so I'll do what I can. > > I would like to get my code reviewed before attempting to hack into > the existing views though. Who would you suggest I contact for that? > Should I be writing tests? If so, is there any docs to get me started? > > I'm forked off trunk btw - some one mentioned the history feature! In > fact that's affecting my search results because played tracks always > appear in the results. > > thanks > keith > > On 21 March 2012 18:27, RJ Ryan<russelljr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey Keith, >> >> Nice work! I like your idea of making this possible to do in any view. I >> think there are two main problems you should figure out how to solve if >> you're going to follow up on that: >> >> 1) How to make the checkboxes visible in any library-table-view, but hidable >> so they don't waste vertical real-estate. >> >> Maybe a tiny down-arrow button at the top right of the library that when >> clicked will slide the "filter panel" down? >> >> Maybe you could even experiment with totally changing the library layout. >> Take the search box out of the top-left of the library and instead make a >> search icon (again maybe hovering at the top-right?) that when clicked >> rolls-down the search box and your filter checkboxes. It sounds like some >> fun stuff to experiment with. >> >> 2) When you click a checkbox (again, thinking about showing the checkboxes >> in any library view), I think it should simply append search query terms to >> your current search query using some of the work by Bart Verstrynge on >> advanced search operators as a jumping off point. >> >> For example -- if you click "similar BPM", it should append "~bpm" to your >> search box, which is the advanced search operator for "similar BPM to the >> currently loaded tracks". And if you cilck "similar Key" it should just >> append "~key" to your search. This has the added benefit of educating users >> on how to use the advanced search operators. >> >> Are you basing your work off of trunk or the 1.10 branch? There is a fancy >> new session history feature in trunk. :) >> >> RJ >> >> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:25 PM, keithsalisb...@gmail.com >> <keithsalisb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Yves, >>> >>>> Another thing that comes to my mind is to display tracks (on top of the >>>> list?) that you've played often in combination with the currently >>>> playing track. But I'm not sure if you have that kind of information in >>>> mixxx. >>> That's something that might fit into what I have in mind for my next >>> little contribution - a "history" view - because apparently the data >>> is being stored somewhere, so its only fair to let the user have >>> access to us and be able to use it - for example to create playlists - >>> or crates. >>> >>> By the way, my branch is quite stable now, so if you want to give it a >>> try and provide some feedback that would be great! >>> >>> bzr branch lp:~keithsalisbury/mixxx/track_selector_feature >>> >>> While on the subject, does anyone know the procedure for proposing a >>> merge - I'm not there quite yet, but would be good to know. Do i need >>> to write some tests? Does the code need to be reviewed by someone? ie, >>> someone who knows C++!! lol There's probably some questionable design >>> patterns in my code - not least that my model is binding itself to the >>> view!!! (I thought that was the job of the controller!) >>> >>> cheers >>> Keith >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> This SF email is sponsosred by: >>> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today >>> http://mixxx.org >>> >>> >>> Mixxx-devel mailing list >>> Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today http://mixxx.org Mixxx-devel mailing list Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
