Rockbox Development > Feature Ideas
Playlisting
Llorean:
If you want to get to a song in mind, can't you just select the song rather than browsing for it within a playlist?
darkenvy:
Well I'm ot sure how the rest of the world utilizes playlists but it was my understanding that they were invented on MP3 devices to make categories for a given mood ect. It makes finding music over 3x - 4x faster on the official iPod firm., then after the song you had in mind stops it would then play a similar song by a different artist. That's why playlists rock!
Anyways this is the one thing I have against rockbox and I usually have nothing but good stuff to say about it ^^
soap:
--- Quote from: darkenvy on November 14, 2010, 02:55:27 PM ---then after the song you had in mind stops it would then play a similar song by a different artist.
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That snippet appears to be describing iTunes' smart playlists, a dynamic playlist which pieces together a series of tracks based upon various settings. Rockbox only supports static playlists, literally a list of songs to play.
Now, Rockbox has many ways to create, modify, and manage playlists, but I think we're getting away from your original point which was:
--- Quote from: darkenvy on November 13, 2010, 01:18:04 PM ---All you have to do is hold down center button and it adds it to the playlist!
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Since you're talking about iPod, the way to do that is a long-press of select while highlighting said song, "insert next".
Mind you Rockbox has at least ten times the options of the Apple firmware, so Rockbox just can't map them all to single button presses like Apple does.
darkenvy:
--- Quote from: soap on November 14, 2010, 03:02:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: darkenvy on November 14, 2010, 02:55:27 PM ---then after the song you had in mind stops it would then play a similar song by a different artist.
--- End quote ---
That snippet appears to be describing iTunes' smart playlists, a dynamic playlist which pieces together a series of tracks based upon various settings. Rockbox only supports static playlists, literally a list of songs to play.
Now, Rockbox has many ways to create, modify, and manage playlists, but I think we're getting away from your original point which was:
--- Quote from: darkenvy on November 13, 2010, 01:18:04 PM ---All you have to do is hold down center button and it adds it to the playlist!
--- End quote ---
Since you're talking about iPod, the way to do that is a long-press of select while highlighting said song, "insert next".
Mind you Rockbox has at least ten times the options of the Apple firmware, so Rockbox just can't map them all to single button presses like Apple does.
--- End quote ---
Woah! This if far from what I'm saying. I am NOT describing the smart playlist, but a static playlist that I would have created which would have been a collection of songs from different artists. Like Goa-Psytrance favorites in one playlist; many artists but static playlist.
I understand that Rockbox has far more options and that you can only map so many buttons. But the fact of the matter is that in order to search WITHIN a playlist you must open the playlist. Opening a playlist means that the first song will start playing, the menu goes to the "current song" screen and that I must then change to a different menu to view the CONTENTS of the playlist.
I don't understand why I cant look inside (for the contents of the playlist) without having to execute (play the first track) of the playlist. Sometimes I decide its not that playlist I want and then I just wasted lots of unnecessary loading time.
Llorean:
Why not tag the files well with Genre tags and other tags, and use the Database to manage it? As well then it could automatically update categories as new songs are added.
It sounds like this is closer to what you want if you don't know the specific song.
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