Spreadsheet, Playlists, Tag Editing, and Queuing

[Orville Bennett]

On Dec 21, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:

> O wrote:
>>> 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 ...
>
> Not in the least.
>
>>> 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.
>
> I think you might be in the minority there.  If I want to move a track
> from position 3 to position 80, I don't relish the idea of click (to
> open the queue manager), click (on track at position 3), click x 77  
> (to
> move the track down the queue), click to close.  Why use 80 clicks  
> when
> you can type a number?
My playlists are rarely that long :-) I see your point however.
>
>
>>> 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. :-/
>
> Three issues off the cuff: very small areas to click, so hard to pick
> the right tag; not much horizontal room to see what you're typing;
That must be a pretty tiny screen. These of the cuff reasons aren't  
very strong for me.
>
> keyboard shortcuts to move between them would be difficult.
Once your in an edit field just [tab][tab][tab].
>
>
> --Jeff
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