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Here are three new things I've implemented in AudioMan that will be in 0.5.0. I've already checked them into the CVS repository. Download the nightly build tomorrow if you're anxious and want to check them out. 1. Select Multiple Artists/Albums You can select more than one artist and/or album and all of the tracks matching those artists/albums will appear in the track list. Hold down Control to select more than one item in the list. 2. Drag and Drop out of AudioMan Grab a track from the track list and drag it to Windows Explorer to copy it, or MSN Messenger to send it. Works with any application that understands the drag and drop copy command. 3. Drag and Drop into AudioMan Drag a file from Windows Explorer to the track list of AudioMan and it includes it in your AudioMan collection. A question about this last one though: if the user has a playlist selected in AudioMan and a file is dragged over and dropped, should the track be added to the playlist too or just the collection? On the one hand, it's simpler to add it just to the collection. The user won't have to worry about selecting "Whole Collection" before dragging files over, if he doesn't want these new files to be added to a playlist. But on the other hand the user might be expecting it to be added to what he's currently looking at (a playlist). I *could* also pop up a dialog asking "add these tracks to the currently selected playlist too?" That might be the best idea. Let me know what you think. Posted at June 06, 2004 at 09:01 PM ESTLast updated June 06, 2004 at 09:01 PM EST Comments
I would have the dialog say something like "add these tracks to these playlists" with a selection box or something. Have the current playlist defaulted. That way if they want to have the song in multiple playlists, they can do it all in one step. » Posted by: Jim at June 6, 2004 11:35 PMYeah...I second that. Good idea. » Posted by: roy at June 7, 2004 07:12 PMOK, well ... should I present this dialog when the user includes files the regular way (through the menu) as well? Might seem like overkill one way, and inconsistent the other. » Posted by: Ryan at June 8, 2004 12:43 PMFYI: when you drag a file to a playlist in iTunes it adds it to the collection as well as the playlist displayed. When you add a track via the menu, it's only added to the collection. I think this way would make the most sense to the user. » Posted by: Ryan at June 8, 2004 01:22 PMI like M$ words feature where it does what it thinks is intelligent (perhaps some autoformatting) and a small icon style drop down menu appears (until you do something else) with a list of options... 1) Keep here |
