Dynamic playlists renaming

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Wed May 13 17:45:33 UTC 2009


Orville Bennett wrote:
> On May 13, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Colin Kern wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was just talking to my friend about the dynamic playlists in Amarok
>> 2, and he had a comment that I wanted to pass on.  I think we can
>> agree that the dynamic playlists aren't understood by many of the
>> Amarok users, and I think the name itself might be adding to the
>> confusion.  First of all, I think few people outside the computer
>> science field really understand the meaning of "static" and "dynamic"
>> and what it means in this context.  Also, the term "playlist" I think
>> people think of as being static lists of songs, so it's hard for them
>> to conceptualize a playlist that changes.  My friend's idea was to
>> rename dynamic playlists as something like "Local radio".  I think

While I think the idea has merit, I don't think "Local radio" is a good
choice as it can just as easily make the function misunderstood.
Something like "Personal Mixes" may be better.

--Jeff

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