On 2009/05/23 01:25, m...@funkyhat.org wrote: > Hi guys, > I've just started playing around with MPD and there are a couple of things > I'm missing from using Banshee and Rhythmbox (although on the whole I'm > finding the experience vastly superior :-)) > > Firstly is the ability to easily put my whole library on shuffle > (although admittedly this is rather trivial to do).
"mpc add /" > Secondly the ability to add tracks to a special "queue" > playlist. This is how I see this playlist working: We had this idea and feature request over and over, and we will NOT have a "second" playlist. This idea is complex and cumbersome, because it requires to duplicate a lot of code inside MPD. We will have a generic approach, which makes the "queue" a special case. It will be something like a "chained list of playlist" or "nested playlists". I hoped we could bring it into 0.15, but it turned out the playlist code was so complex, I got lost during code cleanup and never finished it. I will continue work on that after the final 0.15 release. If you want to help, have a look at src/playlist.c, src/queue.c and the other related source files. Try to judge where you can simplify and generalize code. Post your ideas and patches on this mailing list, so we can discuss them. > Both of these features could work in such a way that current clients > could use them without modification (although I don't know if that > is of concern to you) I think it is quite important not to break older clients. Sometimes, that is hard to do. There's a lot of unmaintained but well working MPD client code floating around, and we should keep it this way. Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
