by frankenpod » Thu May 28, 2015 10:51 pm
nohitter151 wrote:I think the problem in this case is, what do you show in the main track window when more than one playlist is selected? It could cause confusion for users.
I would have thought the simplest thing would be to just display the text "multiple playlists selected" (or "multiple items selected") and not show anything else in that window, unless only one item is selected. I don't need to see the contents of all the selected playlists at once, all I need to know is the names of the playlists at this point, I'm not doing any manipulation at a lower level than playlists as an entity - I just need to move them all (or delete them all, or whatever).
(Ha, lowlander just said the same thing, as I was typing that!)
Alternatively, maybe there could be an entirely separate "playlist manager" plug-in that lets you do stuff with playlists, perhaps treating them much as nested folders in a conventional file-manager.
It is tedious to have a couple of hundred playlists imported from iTunes (all iTunes's nesting seems to be removed in the import process - and getting them organised in iTunes was painful enough as it has the exact same problem), and all just dumped, flat, into one "iTunes" playlist node, and then you have to re-organise them, one at a time, on an awkward slowly vertically scrolling 1dimensional list view.
I remember having very similar problems organising bookmarks in some browsers. Seems to me that the traditional 2-dimensional area containing nested files and folders is the best way to do this sort of thing, its puzzling why so many programs try to reinvent it, with awkward results.
[quote="nohitter151"]I think the problem in this case is, what do you show in the main track window when more than one playlist is selected? It could cause confusion for users.[/quote]
I would have thought the simplest thing would be to just display the text "multiple playlists selected" (or "multiple items selected") and not show anything else in that window, unless only one item is selected. I don't need to see the contents of all the selected playlists at once, all I need to know is the names of the playlists at this point, I'm not doing any manipulation at a lower level than playlists as an entity - I just need to move them all (or delete them all, or whatever).
(Ha, lowlander just said the same thing, as I was typing that!)
Alternatively, maybe there could be an entirely separate "playlist manager" plug-in that lets you do stuff with playlists, perhaps treating them much as nested folders in a conventional file-manager.
It is tedious to have a couple of hundred playlists imported from iTunes (all iTunes's nesting seems to be removed in the import process - and getting them organised in iTunes was painful enough as it has the exact same problem), and all just dumped, flat, into one "iTunes" playlist node, and then you have to re-organise them, one at a time, on an awkward slowly vertically scrolling 1dimensional list view.
I remember having very similar problems organising bookmarks in some browsers. Seems to me that the traditional 2-dimensional area containing nested files and folders is the best way to do this sort of thing, its puzzling why so many programs try to reinvent it, with awkward results.
