On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:43 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:21 -0500, John Russell wrote: > > This is one of those rare cases where Reply-All is the right way to > > go. I'm not an RB developer so I have no idea how hard this is. > > Anyone else know? > > You guys are looking for the "Smart playlists" which are already > implemented. They should be fairly to extend to have additional tests > and metadata to filter.
Mmmm, does 'Automatic Playlist' equal Smart Playlist? If so, it looks like it cannot do what I would like it to do. Not out of the box anyway. If I create two playlists, one that lists 'Metal' in the genre and another that lists 'Jazz' in the genre both lists do not appear to have the songs that have both a jazz and metal genre comment defined. (I suppose I could comma delimit genres in one field...) And the pane views are so much easier to use to be able to filter down to certain songs. With the playlist idea I have to manually edit the playlist criteria. This involves right clicking and typing where as the using the panes just requires clicking. Also using playlists if I just want certain albums in a genre I need to create a totally new playlist and stuff more criteria in there. With the pane view I just 'click on down'. I would have liked to uninstall the playlist mentality when I uninstalled XMMS. ;-) I hope I am missing something here. Any ideas? Joanthon. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Jonathon Watney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 07:41:06 -0800 > > Subject: Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Support for organizing by multiple > > genres per song. > > To: John Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > John, > > > > On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 08:11 -0500, John Russell wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 07:22:40 -0500, John Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:32:43 -0800, Jonathon Watney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > > > John, > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > > > > > > > Stop me if I am wrong but I read your response as: RB cannot support > > > > > such a feature because not all (namely id3) tag formats support > > > > > multiple > > > > > genre fields. > > > > > > > > > > Maybe I was not clear before. Songs would have as many genre > > > > > references > > > > > as genre comment fields, no? And formats that do not support multiple > > > > > genre fields would obviously only have one genre reference. > > > > > > > > > > Or maybe I read your reponse wrong. I just do not see how id3 > > > > > limitations come into this if RB can intelligently extract tag fields. > > > > > > > > That is an excellent point. > > > > > > > > I also found this... > > > > > > > > http://smartplaylists.com/comments.php?id=107_0_1_0_C > > > > http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20030409021945127&title=Smartlist+by+location%2C+please!&pid=0 > > > > > > > > These discuss using multiple genres if they are separated by commas in > > > > itunes. HOwever, it says that itunes just sees them as new genres. > > > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > > > Rock > > > > Hard Rock > > > > Rock, Hard Rock > > > > > > > > are three separate genres, not a hierarchy like I think you want. The > > > > entire concept of the UI would have to be changed as itunes, the ipod > > > > and RB all use the drilling down into the genres concept. You would > > > > need to add an arbitrary number of levels to that. And at what point > > > > would you stop drilling down into genres and start seeing artists? > > > > > > > > e.g. > > > > > > > > Decend from Rock into Hard Rock. Now you see all your Hard Rock, but > > > > not your other just Rock songs. Would Hard Rock show up on the same > > > > level as just Rock songs? I would love to have this work somehow as > > > > "Classical" just doesn't cut it for my collection, but I'm not sure > > > > it can be jammed into the current tools. > > > > > > > > > > Actually, after thinking about this a little more, I guess that > > > sub-genres are not really necessary and all that you are looking for > > > is to have a single song be in more than one genre. Sort of the way > > > that v-folders work in evolution where a single piece of mail can be > > > in multiple v-folders and you don't have to have multiple copies of > > > the same song. That might be really nice and not require any changes > > > to the UI as the song would simply appear in more than one genre. > > > Would this work? > > > > That sounds exactly what I want! :-) VFolders is an excellent analogy. I > > wish I thought of it. > > > > Now, would this be hard to implement? > > > > Jonathon. > > _______________________________________________ > > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > > --- > Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
