Support and General Use > User Interface and Voice
Playlist: Centre button or Right could Insert instead of Play?
Rincewind:
--- Quote ---sounds good, BUT I think not only should it be optional, it sould be customizable also.
i.e, right would allow any of the playlist insert options (so all the insert and queue options)
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I wish you good luck getting something regarding buttons and customisability past the core developers...
If I knew that it had chances to get included, I would extend my record button patch with this functionalty (different players, different buttons, but the same concept).
rossic:
Sorry to butt in with another tangent, but...
Well, I had been thinking this pretty recently myself, and wondering if I should put it in feature request or not. Here was my thought on the issue (from the perspective of an iriver3x0).
If I am alone in this reasoning, then I am sorry to bother you...
The NAVI (center) button currently does 2 things.
* It Plays the current song
* Adds the directory (not including sub directories) to the playlist
This seems rather silly to me. I don't always want to add the whole directory, and with the current set up there is no way to just have ONE song in the playlist. You can do it, but it involves more than one step, which just becomes tedious. I think that NAVI should just put one song in the playlist and play it.
Then, like you have been discussing, make the RIGHT button insert (next / last / etc, maybe modifiable through config menus?) and also automatically select the next file, so that if you want to select 3 files that are next to eachother, you hit "RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT," not "RIGHT, DOWN, RIGHT, DOWN, RIGHT, DOWN." This setup would also mean that you must hold NAVI to insert an entire directory, but I think that's something we can deal with to enqueue a whole directory.
Also... sometimes it might be nice to choose on the fly if I want to add the whole directory recursively or non recursively (though it's pretty rare).
If I missed something, and there is an easy way to just have one file in the playlist... could someone tell me how? :D
Llorean:
You do realize that "Insert" would be inserting a single file into a playlist. Wouldn't that negate the need to have NAVI play just one file?
You seem to want to reduce *both* buttons from what they do now, not preserving that function at all.
rossic:
I'm not sure if you follow me...
I'm saying that if you have a bunch of files in the playlist, and you say, "hey, I'd really just like to start a fresh playlist," you can't just insert a song. If you currently use the NAVI button at that point, you start a new playlist, sure, but you also include the other files in the directory. That's a "reduction," I suppose, but my point was kind of poking at the fact that I think the current functionality of the NAVI button is flawed.
I do agree that functionality would benefit if the right button became an insert. However, I think NAVI is a little strange.
Am I the only one who would like to be able to select a single song, and make it the only song in a playlist?
JdGordon:
--- Quote from: rossic on January 22, 2007, 07:02:13 AM ---Am I the only one who would like to be able to select a single song, and make it the only song in a playlist?
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No, ive always thouught this was strange also..
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