[Feedback] Amarok 2 UI/playlist feedback

Tue Jul 31 21:14:16 UTC 2007

Hi,

Have you taken a look at the mockup in the article?
http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_mockup.png
You see that the playlist will display more information than just the title
and artist.

(From the article you linked to)
"Amarok is in many ways inspired by XMMS, which in turn bears a lot of
resemblance to Winamp. Basically, it's a music player with a multi-column
playlist that displays information from tags contained within the media
files. Now, these multi-column playlists have not really changed much over
the last decade, except that different applications have added interesting
ways to sort, filter, and edit tags. Amarok is particularly good at sorting
and filtering, and half decent at tag editing (see
JuK<http://developer.kde.org/%7Ewheeler/juk.html>as an example of a
player with an amazing tag editor). But none of these
functions really require Amarok to present its playlist in a rigid column
format, except for traditional reasons. So as part of the UI reworking for
Amarok 2, the playlist is seeing a rebirth of sorts. While it still lists
Tracks, Titles, and other tags, it will no longer be constrained by the old
fashioned playlist column format."

If you want to know more about the Amarok 2 development, I suggest you to
have a look at the developers' blogs ( http://amarok.kde.org/blog ). For
example, here's a sneak preview of the playlist:
http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/456-Sneak-peak,-pretty-playlist,-raw-plasma.html

With that said, I hope someone will give you a better explanation.

With best regards,
Hans

On 7/31/07, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/31/07, 4bugzilla at gmail.com <4bugzilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Serhiy sent a message using the contact form at
> > http://amarok.kde.org/en/contact.
> >
> > The main source of information about Amarok 2 Development I was able to
> > find is the following articale
> > http://dot.kde.org/1173761811/
> > It gives some guidelines how interface of Amarok 2 will look. From this
> > article:
> > --
> > You may first wonder "Where is the playlist?" as I and a few of my peers
> >
> > on IRC initially wondered, but if you look closely, the list on the
> > right
> > is actually the playlist, only it's broken free from its old format.
> > --
> > And I wan to ask you the same question. Where is the playlist? As far as
> > I
> > can see from the article "playlist" it is what we can see on the right
> > of
> > http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_4x_amarok.png
> > image. I mean that screen is split into 3 parts where on the middle is
> > former "context view" and "playlist" is what is right to the context
> > view.
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >
> > If so I want to ask you some questions. Will I be able to make Amarok 2
> > look like
> > http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_356_amarok.png
> > ? I ask this because on Amarok 1.4.5 screenshot we can see what people
> > call playlist. A list with not just list of pairs Title/Artist but a
> > list
> > with all information I want to see and with possibility to sort, filter
> > do
> > some other staff and exclude some tracks from playing (via checkbox)
> > (But I
> > guess this feature is missing)
> >
> > The other question will I be able to hide "context view" which is in the
> > middle of the screen? I mean it is nice but it takes to much space on
> > the
> > screen but gives nothing useful (from my point of view).
>
>
> you will be able to  hide the context view, if you wish. without it, you won't be able to see much of the context data that is displayed there, such as info about the current track, lyrics, wikipedia, and more.
>
> but if you so wish, you do have that option.
>
> Are you planning to implement possibility to exclude some tracks from
> > playing via checkbox. Like this is implemented in iTunes? It is very
> > useful
> > because you can keep some tracks in playlist and in the same time mark
> > that
> > they will not be played. This prevents users from editing playlist every
> > time you just dont want some song was played in this list.
> >
> > And from my point of view it possible to clean up Amarok's UI and make
> > it
> > more simple and clear. I propose to have 3 different views for playlist.
> > 1
> > is row list which is enhanced table view similar to
> > http://static.kdenews.org/content/the-road-to-kde-4/vol12_356_amarok.png
> >
> > but without context view. 2nd view can be very similar to the current
> > context view but display all tracks grouped by albums or artists. And
> > the
> > third one the cover flow view similer to iTunes (I have read that
> > someone
> > is already working to implement this in Amarok). I think that it is
> > possible to make these views different tabs in the playlist window so
> > that
> > it was very easy to switch between them.
> >
> > Other possible enhancement could be to reorganize navigation by the
> > usage
> > of tree instead of current buttons on the left side of the screen.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Serhiy
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>
>
>
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