renaming Playlist for clarity and developer sanity

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Tue Oct 2 21:47:21 CEST 2007


On 10/2/07, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not just static track list file that are populating the
> PlaylistBrowser, although those are certainly amongst them. Other
> categories are Podcasts, Smart Playlists, Favorite streams, Suggested
> streams, etc

Not all of those are really playlists or track lists. Not that I have
a better name for it though!

> > >
> > > Remember: "Amarok is about big collections, not big Playlists"
> > > and "If you want a playlisteditor use Juk" --markey
> >
> > Amarok is very playlist-oriented though... you either misremember
> > markey or he was on crack, Amarok is much better at playlist control
> > then JuK.
> >
> I'm pretty sure about the quotes, but that is not the point. The
> *focus* of Amarok is not on the playlist, the fact that Amarok is
> better at it than JuK (which I doubt) would have to do with manpower.

Well JuK has a collection-listing instead of a playlist. Its a different focus.


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