Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-06-05 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2009/06/05 18:02, Jeffrey Middleton wrote: > iTunes had a "party shuffle" feature that would show you the next n > songs it's planning to play (and m previous - a sort of delayed > consume). You could then add to, remove from, or rearrange that > list. Basically you had access to the random q

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-06-05 Thread Jeffrey Middleton
I'm totally with Max on this one - the general form of the feature sounds excellent. The one thing I only just thought of is that a subsequent request we may get is the ability to mess with the upcoming random queue (not playlist). This can sort of be done by shuffling the playlist instead of usi

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-05-26 Thread Max Kellermann
On 2009/05/26 13:21, Matt Wheeler wrote: > I'm not sure I understand, a queue has a lot of similarities to a > playlist, so surely re-using playlist code would result in less > duplication of code than a separate solution (although that may mean > the current playlist code would need generalising

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-05-26 Thread Matt Wheeler
Reposting to the list as I just replied to Max, sorry. 2009/5/26 Max Kellermann : [snip] 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. I'm not sure

Re: [Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-05-26 Thread Max Kellermann
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

[Musicpd-dev-team] mpd features - 'play library' and 'play queue'

2009-05-22 Thread m
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