Hi, Other players use a playlist icon with a gear emblem on it for smart playlists like this.
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 21:51 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi. > > The music player Exaile has a feature which does the following: based on > the current content of the playlist, other similar tracks from your own > music collection are added to the playlist. That this is based on data > fetched from music services like last.fm is only an extra info. > > I tried really hard coming up with a graphical metaphor to express the > functionality above but could not find any. The fact that I need so many > words to describe a simple functionality does not help. > > Now I would like to ask the members of this list for ideas and, if > someone has some spare time left, maybe even an implementation. > > One idea is a depiction of a playlist where one or several arrows point > at a free spot in the playlist indicating that something will be added > there. I am afraid that this is too much detail for the lowest > resolution at 16×16 pixels but maybe it’s a start. > > Another idea is an arrow with multiple starts (representing the current > tracks in playlist) but only one end (indicating the tracks added > dynamically) below. A lot less detail required here but would require an > actual implementation to evaluate. > > > Thanks for comments and regards, > Mathias Brodala > > - -- > debian/rules > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkowDrAACgkQYfUFJ3ewsJi8NwCfddB/sULd+kuySoLi6sOOMBAJ > rWEAnjbIP0+fR5vvEnogsdEgzye2XT4/ > =GPPz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Tango-artists mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists
