Party mode intuitive navigation [BUG# 5909]

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wbz
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Party mode intuitive navigation [BUG# 5909]

Post by wbz »

Sorry in advance if i didn't search hard enough and this question has already been answered :D

I noticed when using MM in party mode, songs are playing from the queue, and non MM users try to find songs to add to the queue, that they usually search the tree for the (album)artist and then click on that artist.
When MM is in album art mode they will see the album art, thinks MM works like windows, and they will double click the album because for them it's a folder they want to access to play the song they want to hear.
But in that way MM will add the entire album tot the queue and that will spoil the party :(

Sure you can set the action to edit properties but in my opinion isn't very intuitive.

Do i miss some settings or could you implement this in a future version?
wbz
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Re: Party mode intuitive navigation

Post by wbz »

No one else has the same problem or is my question not clear?
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Re: Party mode intuitive navigation [BUG# 5909]

Post by Peke »

You are right I added this to our bug tracking http://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=5909
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Re: Party mode intuitive navigation [BUG# 5909]

Post by rusty »

Hi,

Isn't the solution to this problem to use Album Art + Details View when in Party mode? The alternative of showing the album art, but only playing a single track would seem to be even more confusing, I think.

-Rusty
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Re: Party mode intuitive navigation [BUG# 5909]

Post by wbz »

rusty wrote:Hi,

Isn't the solution to this problem to use Album Art + Details View when in Party mode? The alternative of showing the album art, but only playing a single track would seem to be even more confusing, I think.

-Rusty
Hi,
Yes that is a way, but is there a way to keep MM in that view? Users can still switch to album art view.
And if they accidentally double click on the album art in AAdetail mode than the entire album is still added to the queue.

Configurable double click actions, as described in the bug report, are nice but are a bit overkill for this problem.

If there is a tick box in party mode options, somthing like: "Only one song can be added to the queue at once" this should do the trick.
If there is more than one song selected when adding to the queue the adding sould be stopped.


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