"Add To Playlist" patch

[Assimalyst]

I dunno, I have playlists that I intentionally put duplicates in. I like to think of it as weighting for shuffle. The more I want a song to show up, the more I put it in a large playlist, so that I don't only hear it once per cycle of a 1000 entry list.

Fair enough. Makes sense, though i don't do this myself. Suppose it's best then to keep the patch as is and i manually remove them if necessary.

Suppose I'll just have to improve my brain power. . .  I'm off to drink a vat of fish oil 

[dunno]

or you could just open the .m3u file as a text file and edit it that way, works for me, (via pc).

which is why I'm curious as to why the 'viewer' doesn't display the contents of the playlist-catalog file

[Llorean]

Someone could make a "prune duplicates" plugin that goest through a playlist and insures uniques.
To me, there's a lot of "utility" style plugins that could do a lot of things people want, but be a plugin so they don't increase binary size (and therefor have no argument against them from me .

[Assimalyst]

Someone could make a "prune duplicates" plugin that goest through a playlist and insures uniques.
To me, there's a lot of "utility" style plugins that could do a lot of things people want, but be a plugin so they don't increase binary size (and therefor have no argument against them from me .

Mmmm, a cunning plan indeed. Perhaps if i get time and the fish oils kick in sufficiently i could have a go at this. 

[hardeep]

whilst playing something from a catalog and in wps,

i), press joystick in for wps context menu
ii), select 'playlist catalog' > 'view' menu, navigate to a catalog to view its contents.

when you 'select' the catalog to'view' it immediately starts to play the contents of that catalog, shouldn't this be more like a browser feature, i.e. one can browse the contents of the various catalogs without it automatically playing the contents ?.

The "view" option is to list the playlists in the catalog in the same way as browsing the directory tree.  To view the contents of a particular playlist, press the context button on the selected playlist and go to Playlist->View.

-Hardeep

[dunno]

whilst playing something from a catalog and in wps,

i), press joystick in for wps context menu
ii), select 'playlist catalog' > 'view' menu, navigate to a catalog to view its contents.

when you 'select' the catalog to'view' it immediately starts to play the contents of that catalog, shouldn't this be more like a browser feature, i.e. one can browse the contents of the various catalogs without it automatically playing the contents ?.

The "view" option is to list the playlists in the catalog in the same way as browsing the directory tree.  To view the contents of a particular playlist, press the context button on the selected playlist and go to Playlist->View.

-Hardeep

I see, so the wps context menu > playlist catalog > view is not supposed to show you the contents of the playlist ?.

I would have thought that one could view the contents of the file that way as well, or do I have the cat by the tail?.

[hardeep]

I see, so the wps context menu > playlist catalog > view is not supposed to show you the contents of the playlist ?.

I would have thought that one could view the contents of the file that way as well, or do I have the cat by the tail?.

To view the contents of a playlist in the catalog from the WPS:
wps context menu > playlist catalog > view > context > playlist > view

-Hardeep

[dunno]

To view the contents of a playlist in the catalog from the WPS:
wps context menu > playlist catalog > view > context > playlist > view

-Hardeep

> playlist catalog > view > context > playlist > view
                                   !                                         !
Hardeep, I dont get it, surely the first view should allow one to view the contents of the catalog playlist instead of starting play on that playlist, it's a bit unintuitive having to press for a context menu again to get to another view menu to view/browse the files. I would never have guessed that one has to cycle through another context menu to get to another view menu.

sorry but I don't get the design philosophy on this one.

just my .000002c worth

P.S.

ah i get it now,

wps context > playlist catalog > view <== the terminology is what threw me here, its "view" as in "select to play"

is it possible to come up with a better label for this "view", perhaps "choose" or "select to play", or "pick n play"

or maybe I should just shut up...  ;-)

[Assimalyst]

is it possible to come up with a better label for this "view", perhaps "choose" or "select to play", or "pick n play"

Maybe "List" or "View Catalog"? 

[dunno]

is it possible to come up with a better label for this "view", perhaps "choose" or "select to play", or "pick n play"

Maybe "List" or "View Catalog"? 

I think 'view catalog' or "List" are both better than my feeble attempts, either is more descriptive of it's function.

The dynamic playlist has "view current playlist" which allows one to browse through the tracks in the dynamic playlist, this menu is well described, this is why I was thrown by the view for the catalog playlists, I expected it to do the same.

[dunno]

Hardeep
I have cleared the contents of a playlist Catalog file and you said the only way to retain the Playlist Catalog file "empty' is to resave it, but, there appears to be no menu which will enable me to save the Playlist Catalog in an empty/cleared state. this appears to be a bug and not a "undocumented feature" :>

[hardeep]

I have cleared the contents of a playlist Catalog file and you said the only way to retain the Playlist Catalog file "empty' is to resave it, but, there appears to be no menu which will enable me to save the Playlist Catalog in an empty/cleared state.

I assume you're talking about a playlist file as there is no "playlist catalog" file?  To save a playlist from the viewer, select Menu->Save Current Playlist.

-Hardeep

[dunno]

I have cleared the contents of a playlist Catalog file and you said the only way to retain the Playlist Catalog file "empty' is to resave it, but, there appears to be no menu which will enable me to save the Playlist Catalog in an empty/cleared state.

I assume you're talking about a playlist file as there is no "playlist catalog" file?  To save a playlist from the viewer, select Menu->Save Current Playlist.

-Hardeep

No Hardeep I am not refering to normal playlist functionality, I'm refering to the Playlist Catalog.
Within playlists create a playlist, add some files/songs to this playlist, then remove the contents of that playlist and try and save it.

[hardeep]

No Hardeep I am not refering to normal playlist functionality, I'm refering to the Playlist Catalog.
Within playlists create a playlist, add some files/songs to this playlist, then remove the contents of that playlist and try and save it.

Viewing the playlist from the catalog is identical to viewing it from the file tree.  As I said, Menu->Save Current Playlist from the playlist viewer will let you save the playlist.

-Hardeep

[dunno]

yikes, an extra menu in there, ok, I see it now.

hmm. one has to rename the playlist. ok.