Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
One button press -> Remove current song from list, jump to next song
Mosician:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 01, 2009, 11:35:25 PM ---...
As I said already, deleting is something you need, at most, once per song. The primary use of a player is listening to music, not managing music files, and the WPS button functionality represents this.
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For me a player should allow listening while at the same time allowing most basic song management in a supersimple way
a) removing bad songs from the current playlist and
b) adding good songs to a "favourites list".
--- Quote ---... "Delete song from playlist" is a feature many, many users will never even use.
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Here I disagree as everybody has at least a "favourites list". Or can you imagine a person having a 120 GB mp3 player which consists only of favourite songs. I can not. Even for 4 GB this gets difficult.
Llorean:
Adding songs to a favorites list is not what this feature request is about.
You request ways to remove bad songs. I can imagine someone EASILY having 4gb of not-bad songs. And it's also quite easy to create a playlist of your favorites as you go.
This idea was about deleting bad songs, not adding the best ones to a favorites list.
Mosician:
I mentioned favourites list also because we were writing about (basic) song management.
I have to check also btw. if Rockbox allows adding to a favourites list with one single click which would be just the symmetric opposite of the bad song removing function. Removing bad songs ~ Ending up with songs you like ~ Favourite songs.
But I would like to have both ways, entering directly the favourites and just ending up there after a long term "bad songs removal process".
Anyway keep up the good work with Rockbox, now we have discussed almost anything important of this feature idea. Now the readers can make their own opinion.
Right now I am doing all my management exactly as I want using Winamp plus some AutoHotkey customizations. Then I simply copy these favourite selections to my mobile phone and that's it. An mp3 player would get only interesting to me if I could do the same process also in a mobile fashion. So I would need at least this functionality (in a supersimple way). I have even more crazier features for Winamp but as I can feel Rockbox is not the right place to suggest such things.
Llorean:
Have you even used Rockbox and tried its playlist catalog and song removal features?
They are very simple. They aren't one-button, and they'll never be one-button (there are simply not enough buttons) but I think something can still be quite simple even if it requires a couple button presses instead.
Mosician:
--- Quote from: Llorean on January 02, 2009, 01:21:21 AM ---Have you even used Rockbox and tried its playlist catalog and song removal features?
They are very simple. They aren't one-button, and they'll never be one-button (there are simply not enough buttons) but I think something can still be quite simple even if it requires a couple button presses instead.
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No I never used Rockbox as I do not own any standalone mp3 player. The closed software format of mp3 players I just did not like, now Rockbox is good news for me.
As I understood one of Rockbox's philosophies was to keep things as customizable as possible, but as we could see in our conversation, this seems to have some "standard limits". I would even prefer being able to override these "standard button behaviours" as mentioned above. I would define Long Back as "add to favourites list" and Long Next as "remove from current list and jump to next song". Rockbox' philosophy ends already here. ;)
But I suppose I will soon consider buying an additional mp3 player, even knowing they don't have what I want, but thanks to Rockbox, it is possible to implement. Before Rockbox we had not this possibility.
Before buying an mp3 player, I discovered now the Rockbox simulators with which I am playing around now. This is great. So you can buy a hardware when you have finished a Rockbox version which fits to your needs.
While experimenting with the simulator I discovered there is an option in Settings.Playback Settings.Skip Length, e.g. when set to 1 min, who needs the fast forward buttons still? I am asking out of curiosity as this seems to be an overlapping of functionality on buttons, so in such setting scenarios the WPS buttons could adapt themselves to this changes, e.g. by replacing Long Next and Long Back buttons (optionally) with other functionality, e.g. as suggested above.
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