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ChrisRainman

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Change playlist sorting - bug or feature?
« on: February 24, 2007, 11:34:43 am »

Recently, I prepared a larger playlist for which I chose a certain sequence. Building the playlist in that sequence costed me some time. Then I did something that destroyed the complete playlist order!

How to destroy a playlist sequence:

- Sort the playlist by another column than sequence.
- Move a track from one position to another with drag and drop.
- Look at the sequence field! It is suddenly resorted to 1,2,3... which destroys the earlier sequence.

Is it a bug or a feature?

I don't like it at all and now save playllists all the time!
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Re: Change playlist sorting - bug or feature?
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2007, 12:27:03 pm »

Recently, I prepared a larger playlist for which I chose a certain sequence. Building the playlist in that sequence costed me some time. Then I did something that destroyed the complete playlist order!

How to destroy a playlist sequence:

- Sort the playlist by another column than sequence.
- Move a track from one position to another with drag and drop.
- Look at the sequence field! It is suddenly resorted to 1,2,3... which destroys the earlier sequence.

Is it a bug or a feature?

I don't like it at all and now save playllists all the time!

Dragging a file in a standard playlist changes the sequence order. This is what users normally expect.

For example,

Sec    Name
1        E
2        C
3        B
4        A
5        D


Order the displayed list by Name:

Sec    Name
4       A
3       B
2       C
5       D
1       E

Drag C to between D and E:

Sec    Name
4       A
3       B
5       D
?        C
1       E

How would you like to see the sequence order after this? I think that the only reasonable thing MC can do is to renumber the complete sequence.

Or would you like to keep it unchanged? Then dragging would not make a change at all.

Though, the Undo function could be extended to playlist changes too.
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Re: Change playlist sorting - bug or feature?
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2007, 01:36:38 pm »

One expectation could be like following:

Sec    Name
3       A
2       B
4       D
5       C
1       E

So, generally spoken, play the file directly after the file above (D-5) and fill the gap (C-2) caused by the move. For me, this would be a better reaction than reordering the complete playlist. Is this really what users normally expect?

Ok, initially, an undo option would be helpful. I'd rather prefer no drag&drop option than the reorder.
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Re: Change playlist sorting - bug or feature?
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2007, 09:48:19 am »

Personally I would think it would re-sort just like it does today. If I have a playlist and I purposely sorted on a column, that usually means I'm trying to change the sequence order. If I drag and drop a file to another position within that new order I would think that the end result would be the final sequence where I dropped that file. Perhaps an Undo would be helpful though.
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