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darkenvy:
"Ok, so it sounds as if Apple is presenting the playlist as if it were a filesystem?"
Yes! I wish I thought of saying that in the first place  ::)


I love the idea of remapping one button purely for navigation. Forward does the same function as select anyways right? Now as for the previous attempt never getting past discussion phase, at least we know that several people would be interested in this project becoming a reality. Now it's just a matter of actually getting work done.

JdGordon:
I actually thought you could view the contents of playlists and add them so I was a bit surprised to actually try it now and find that you could indeed view playlists but only add tracks to other playlists in the catalog and not to the current playlist (which is rather stupid!)

I assume that it would be relatively simple to fix the playlist viewer to add tracks to the current playlist which would mean <highlight playlist> - context menu - playlist - view - highlight track - context menu - insert (which admittedly its amazing)

I think the far nicer option is the default action on .m3u is to view it exactly like the apple OF does, the reason for changing this action is this:
1) people who want to replace the current playlist with the one they selected would need one extra press (press OK once the viewer is open)
2) people like darkenvy would have 4 actions less to acheive what he wants
3) people who want to insert the playlist in any way other than replacing it have no change because the context menu on the m3u is needed for all the insert/queue/shuffle options.

I'm not going to get into the discussion about having >> and select do different things because it wont end (ever), but the change above sounds perfectly acceptable and actually logical

darkenvy:
So what to do? I'm interested in this kind of mod but don't even know where to start.

JdGordon:
see the mailing list... the only suggestion with any opposition is making .m3u open by default instead of start playing.. the rest just needs time and someone to do it (I'm very slowly doing going to do it unles someone else wants to)

Llorean:
I'd personally prefer M3U not open by default, but I think it's the best way in terms of expanding usability / power.

One compromise might be to have M3U launch by default in the normal file browser, but "view" in the playlist viewer when accessed through the catalog. It's not perfect, but it does expand the functionality without, for the most part, losing much (if you just want a list of playlists to launch, you can simply store them in the folder - the catalog is more for constructing them anyway).

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