Spreadsheet, Playlists, Tag Editing, and Queuing

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On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Jeff Mitchell
<kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> There's been a lot of heated back and forth about alternate playlist
> views, a 1.4-style spreadsheet view, etc.
>
> I have an idea that I think might be palatable to everyone, restores
> some missing 1.4 functionality, and ties into the queue discussion while
> making the Queue Manager dialog unnecessary.  It will hopefully be
> palatable to everyone because it's not a replacement playlist, but
> rather a useful utility.
>
> The proposal so far for the 1.4-style spreadsheet playlist has been to
> have it as an alternate View on the Playlist.  However, this either
> requires taking up the space of the context view, or means the columns
> would be so squished as to be unusable.  So, having such a playlist as a
> permanent option totally detracts from the A2 experience.
>
> However, the spreadsheet view is very good for tagging (not mass
> tagging, mind you...there are better ways both within Amarok and without
> to do that), but for quick one-off tag edits and fixes as you see the
> messed up tags in your playlist.  Right now, doing this inside A2 is
> fairly onerous and involves a pretty complex dialog.
>
> So, here is my proposal.  We have a view that can only be activated on a
> temporary basis.  It is not a playlist; it cannot be used in a permanent
> fashion or to activate tracks for playing.  And it is made temporary by
> (for instance) closing it when the mouse moves off of it.
>
So, it's a popupdropper for editing playlists ...

> What it does is it puts a spreadsheet view of the playlist tracks over
> (for instance) both the collection view and the context view so there is
> plenty of horizontal space.  In this view, columns show common tags and
> metadata, and these can be edited in a quick fashion as they could in
> 1.4.  On one side is a column that shows numerical queue position, which
> allows for quick editing of the queue position of each track (if a
> particular track is queued to begin with).  This is something that was a
> chore even in 1.4 with the queue manager...if you wanted to swap the
> positions of two items in the queue, it could be arduous and take a lot
> of mouse clicks.  Here, if we provide direct numerical access, it is
> very easy.
In theory it sounds good. In this instance I'd much rather click than
type though.

>
> This would make it very easy to adjust the queue and to do quick tag
> edits, while not detracting from our A2 style graphical goodness, more
> compact playlist.  A separate queue manager would also be unnecessary.
>
> Feedback appreciated.
I like the quick tagging idea, but I can't think of anything
preventing similar functionality in the current playlist view. :-/

>
> --Jeff
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