<br clear="all">"Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length"<br>-- Robert Frost<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 February 2011 22:42, Ralf Engels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ralf-engels@gmx.de">ralf-engels@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Di, 2011-02-22 at 00:32 +0300, Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote:<br>
> The reason I tried this branch is because I really really want dynamic<br>
> playlists that work. And that I can come back to in 3 months and still<br>
> understand what they do!<br>
> I can't really answer the "dumb it down" question. What I wonder is<br>
> what scenarios does the current approach fulfil that the simple<br>
> interface (not necessarily functionality) of 1.4 couldn't? That would<br>
> help me give more constructive input on the dynamicplaylist branch.<br>
> For example, I want a playlist with songs before 2000 that are longer<br>
> than 2 minutes in length. I could do this with four or five clicks in<br>
> 1.4. Maybe I'm dumb, but I've failed to do that with either approach<br>
> to dynamic playlists.<br>
> Thanks.<br>
> P.<br>
><br>
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</div>Hi Peter,<br>
what you have described are queries that you can do from the collection<br>
search bar.<br>
So you have AND, OR, NOT and meta queries.<br>
<br>
I want a playlist that is half filled with songs....<br>
Actually we already have the problem here. How can you say: half and<br>
half in the search bar?<br>
<br>
Also conditions that do not rely on a meta tag (e.g. a song is in the<br>
echo nest similar artist list) or are position dependent (e.g. the next<br>
track from a different artist. Or from a similar one) fall flat.<br>
<br>
Peter, did you try out the branch?<br>
Please do, and play a little bit around.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<font color="#888888">Ralf<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>HI Ralf,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the response. </div><div><br></div><div>I did try out the branch and it confused me, although I'll give it another go and post more detailed comments. As you say, the search bar can do some of the more simplistic queries, but that's the point. I want to save some simple queries and load them up when I want. (At the moment, I have more luck doing that with the APG than with dynamic playlists).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps, as someone noted above, the issue is to create an interface that can do the simple, basic things as well as the more complicated. Is it good interface design to have "Simple" and "Advanced" options? VLC does this horribly (in terms of looks) in its settings dialog, although it works!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Peter</div>