Yannzola;169838 Wrote: > maybe if you had a few default filters in place instead of a blank page > on entry to the Custom Skip area? Perhaps with a radio button selector > if only one can be selected at a time?Radio buttons make sense, I'll see if > thats easy to change. It would be possible to create a default filter thats there already from the start with no filter items, this way it might even be possible automatically activate this filter from the start so you can use the hold play actions without making any other configuration. I would like it to be an active choice of the user to start skipping stuff, so I don't like a solution where installation of Custom Skip automatically leads to a situation where tracks is skipped before the user has made an active choice to skip a specific type of tracks.
The only reason a default filter isn't created today is that I liked the user to be able to change the directory where filters are stored before any filters has been created, but this is probably not a critical issue since most people probably will leave the directory at the default setting which points to the playlist directory. I'm not sure adding default filters with filter items is a good idea. I'm a bit afraid this will lead people into creating a lot of different filters with few filter item in each filter. I think a better usage probably is to just have a few filters with a bit more filter items in each filter. A filters with more filter items in each filter will lead to a situation where you probably don't need to change filter so often, which is good. A setup where you want to change filter every time you change playlist would be a bad idea since it means you changing playlists get more complicated. In my own setup I currently just have a single filter thats always activated, it contains filter items for skipping: - Zapped tracks - Short tracks (less than 10 seconds) - Low rated tracks (rated < 2) - Some artists I have in my library that I never want to play - Some albums I have in my library that I never want to play - All songs in Genre=Christmas In time for next christmas I probably want another filter that looks almost the same but doesn't skip christmas songs. Yannzola;169838 Wrote: > I think the empty filter dialog displayed initially makes an assumption > of prior knowledge most users do not have at this point. What I want to > call a filter is based on what it does (it's filter items) Yet at > entry... I have no idea what =can= be done. Does this make sense? > Either some default filters to explore and tweak (by clicking edit) or > showing the available Filter Items =before= asking the user to create a > Filter Container would make better intuitive sense to me. It might be a good idea to change the names like: - "Filter" could be changed to "Container" or "Filter Container" or "Filter Set" - "Filter Item" could be left as it is or maybe changed to "Filter" This would probably make it easier to understand the concept. I'm a bit afraid that showing available "Filter Items" before creating the "Filter" might lead to a situation where people create a lot of "Filter"s with a single "Filter Item" in each filter. The result is that people would expect to be able to have several filters active at the same time which isn't the idea today. When I am writing this I feel more and more that changing the names for filter/filter item as described above is critical. The current names will lead to confusion. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-trackstat) , 'SQLPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-sqlplaylist) , 'DynamicPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-dynamicplaylist), 'Custom Browse' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-custombrowse),'Custom Scan' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customscan),'Custom Skip' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-customskip) and 'RandomPlayList' (http://erland.homeip.net/download/do/viewapplication?name=slimserver-randomplaylist) plugins) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31381 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
