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One button press -> Remove current song from list, jump to next song

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Mosician:
See here. (I add it here again as this is a feature suggestion.)

It is unclear to me why the topic was locked by the administrator Llorean there? How should others discuss this feature then?

By writing "(I did not check the manual for this already.)" I meant not the entire manual, the chapter "4.  Browsing and playing" I checked and could not find anything there.

So in summary it would be nice if admins do not lock too fastly any still relevant ideas.

Llorean:
If you follow the guidelines, your posts won't get locked quickly. If you'd meant it as a request, you should've posted in this section in the first place. The original post certainly reads as "I couldn't be bothered to look, can Rockbox do this?"

Mosician:
Sorry my failure, I should be more precise about how I wrote what I already checked in the manual and what not.

( For me it was "I did not check the full manual from beginning to the end"  ~  "I did not check the manual." )

Llorean:
This is basically a bad idea. A single-button removal (especially one that updates the playlist and/or moves the file) allows for a lot of accidental behaviour.

It only takes a few button presses to either remove a song from the playlist or delete it (and not too many more to do both) and once you've done one or the either, it's only a single button press more to start playing the next song. Meanwhile it's a lot harder to accidentally do it the current way, and there are few (in most cases, none) buttons free for such a feature.

Mosician:

--- Quote from: Llorean on January 01, 2009, 10:17:35 PM ---This is basically a bad idea. A single-button removal (especially one that updates the playlist and/or moves the file) allows for a lot of accidental behaviour.
--- End quote ---
I understand your arguments.

1.  If we assume everybody in this forum would like and want this feature, basically this should be a very fast to implement idea I think, am I correct with this thinking?

2.  If we assume one of many developers would like and want this feature also, is it possible it would get a special release, or a plugin maybe (if possible), so anyone who wants this modification could use this plugin?

3.  If none of above two what would you recommend me how to start for implementing this feature myself (where to look, what to consider and not to forget)?


--- Quote ---It only takes a few button presses to either remove a song from the playlist or delete it (and not too many more to do both) and once you've done one or the either, it's only a single button press more to start playing the next song. Meanwhile it's a lot harder to accidentally do it the current way, and there are few (in most cases, none) buttons free for such a feature.

--- End quote ---
I prefer the principle "often used features should be as simple as possible" which is for me a direct one press click. The more often you need a feature the more this principle is true for me. Removing songs which I do not like and do not want to waste my time with come here at first place for me. There are too many bad songs out there.  :-[

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