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Why does playlist insert replace the current playlist when stopped?
LinusN:
On several occasions, I have had the need to prepare a small playlist with the player, and not have it start playing the first inserted song immediately. I think it would be a quite neat feature.
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--- Quote from: LinusN on October 03, 2007, 02:40:29 AM ---On several occasions, I have had the need to prepare a small playlist with the player, and not have it start playing the first inserted song immediately. I think it would be a quite neat feature.
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Maybe the behaviour of an editing-playlist-while stopped feature should be to never restart playback after insert/queue/replace?
Presumably if the user has stopped playback and gone into the (new) playlist menu he intends to do something more complicated than just selecting a file (or directory) to play.
pondlife:
I might be wrong, but I think the problem is one of consistency. Â Originally, Rockbox was definitely intended to work as "the current playlist doesn't exist once playback is stopped". Â However, some changes have been made towards "the current playlist always exists" model (which I would personally prefer).
I can't see why stopping playback should have an impact on the current playlist really, it's the action of selecting a file in the browser when stopped that clears a playlist, no?
I'd also not prefer to have it automatically start playback when inserting. Make the playback state independent of the playlist construction.
pondlife
Llorean:
If that's the case, what do we want to do with the stop button? In a case where it doesn't make the playlist inactive any more, it's really lost its purpose.
Not starting playback on the first insert is fine, but Play and Pause will become the same button, functionally. The only difference will be whether the audio buffer is preserved or not, and functionally speaking, I think there's no reason not to always preserve the audio buffer, but if Paused, allow a plugin to empty it if necessary.
It does, on the other hand, mean that we free up another button.
Febs:
--- Quote from: Llorean on October 03, 2007, 08:42:29 AM ---If that's the case, what do we want to do with the stop button? In a case where it doesn't make the playlist inactive any more, it's really lost its purpose.
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Considering that the iPod doesn't even have a stop button, I don't think that this is necessarily a bad thing.
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