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Playlisting
Llorean:
If you only put the songs in one playlist, and your songs are already tagged, what's the problem exactly? It sounds like you should already be able to find them in the database then using a well created custom tagnavi...
I apologize for seeming to press on this issue, but it's really unclear where exactly you're finding yourself unable to make effective use of your player - if your files are tagged well and your tagnavi is set up well, it seems like you should already have easy access to sorted lists of your files. Rather than going back to "playlisting should work this way" we should clarify exactly what you cannot do with the existing functionality so that it's easier to determine what the actual shortcoming is other than "it doesn't work how the Apple software does."
soap:
Ok, so it sounds as if Apple is presenting the playlist as if it were a filesystem?
I think I'm getting a grasp of this.
If so that's a pretty neat user interface idea.
Llorean:
The problem with that is that people who currently use a playlist as "a list of songs to play" will lose the ability to launch one with a single click if clicking on them becomes the "view playlist" button instead of the "play playlist" button.
Maybe something should be in the context menu?
soap:
Thinking only of iPod for the moment, would need to check other keymaps, but we have two keys (select and forward) which both launch a playlist. One could "explore" the playlist.
Llorean:
I'm not going to comment for all devices, but the vast, vast majority of them have "select" and "forward" as separate functions.
The idea has been proposed in the past to use one as purely navigation (can't accidentally play files with it) and the other as "begin playing the selection" to allow quickly playing folders by just tapping select on them rather than browsing into them and then selecting a file, but it never gets past the discussion phase.
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