Re-examining Dynamic Mode.

Elliot Pahl elliot.pahl at orcon.net.nz
Sat Jun 3 09:09:48 UTC 2006


Being able to dynamically alter the specification of a dynamic playlist in a 'Dynamic Playlist' tab above the playlist would be quite nice.

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 20:59:09 +1200, Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia at aenertia.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 03 June 2006 20:03, Ian Monroe wrote:
>> On 6/3/06, Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia at aenertia.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> So... whats your ideal implementation look like?
> 
> Well I think now that we have moved to K3M style windowing (HORAH!
> something I
> suggested AGES ago ;-) there are a number of options.
> 
> I think for the moment, just adding it back into the tools menu and
> perhaps
> having it select and popup the default "suggested songs" or "random songs"
> playlist might be a start.
> 
> Perhaps in a wizard style implementation.
> 
> I don't want to change the playlist concept as mentioned I think from a
> purely
> academic point of view that makes sense.
> 
> Perhaps with k3m the concept of having the dynamic mode playlist loading
> as a
> seperate pane above the main playlist... and populating concurently could
> work...
> 
> I.e You have the main playlist above it the suggested/random dynamic
> list...
> and then say being able to manually add stuff to the main playlist from
> the
> suggested/dynamic playlist....
> 
> Essentially this would be similar to the context menu, but far more
> specific
> and easier to manage. It also increases functionality in that you have
> more
> control over what is actually getting played....
> 
> I like this idea quite a lot, and it also means you don't have two
> different
> metaphors operating for the main playlist pane.
> 
> What do others think?
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