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Opinions of User-friendliness in rockbox
Lear:
--- Quote from: pondlife on January 29, 2008, 03:59:26 AM ---The main problem with bookmarks is that they are Folder-based. Â They need to be Playlist-based. Â I have an "AllRandom" playlist which I can jump to at any time when I don't really know what I'd like to listen to but I end up reshuffling it each time, when I should be able to carry on where I left off, using a bookmark. Â I'd like to be able to listen to my big playlist until I feel inspired enough to go and choose an album, then later return to where I left off. Â (Hope that makes some sense.)
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Huh? Bookmarks are based on folder or playlist, depending what you "played" (a file in a directory or a playlist). I also have a shuffled "All" playlist, and I resume that one all the time. I've had well over a hundred bookmarks for that playlist alone...
Lear:
--- Quote from: jdgordon on January 29, 2008, 06:41:20 PM ---
--- Quote from: Lear on January 29, 2008, 06:32:32 AM ---The plugin buffer is used to buffer the filenames, which are (often) loaded from disk when getting a filename from a playlist. If the dircache is enabled, you might get away with not using the plugin buffer...
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oh? that should only be the case when doing "dirplay" though
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The opposite, actually (unless I misunderstood you). When doing dirplay, the playlist is fully stored in memory, so in that case the filenames would not be loaded from disk.
In order to support really big playlists on targets with limited memory, only the file index of each entry in the playlist file is stored in memory (along with some flags).
cpchan:
--- Quote from: Lear on January 29, 2008, 07:00:40 PM ---I also have a shuffled "All" playlist, and I resume that one all the time. I've had well over a hundred bookmarks for that playlist alone...
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My default playlist is a large shuffled "All" playlist from my music library and, like you, bookmarking works like a charm
Charles
pondlife:
--- Quote from: Lear on January 29, 2008, 07:00:40 PM ---Huh? Bookmarks are based on folder or playlist, depending what you "played" (a file in a directory or a playlist). I also have a shuffled "All" playlist, and I resume that one all the time. I've had well over a hundred bookmarks for that playlist alone...
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Hmm, I've never found it works reliably for a database generated playlist. Maybe it was broken last time I tried.
I don't see why there's a need for folder-based bookmarks; aren't folder selections just another method of generating a playlist really? I see the main job of both browsers to be playlist generation (albeit normally dynamic playlists).
pondlife
pondlife:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 29, 2008, 06:13:10 PM ---How 'bout "If music ends, go back to the selected 'start screen' unless that screen is also a playback screen of some sort, then go to wherever the WPS was invoked from" or something like that?
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Why not just go back to the last non-WPS screen the user browsed to. I think that's what's meant to happen at the moment, but it may be slightly buggy.
pondlife
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