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Lock playlists
MarkCoutinho:
Not sure whether I should put this request in a separate topic, but I would like to remind you to something Jim promised in June, last year:
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The ability to lock a playlist was a new feature in v15, added at your request.
We'll add the ability to lock groups and/or inherit locks to the list for the future. It's a long list, so it may be a while.
Thanks.
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I'm still desperately waiting for this extended feature.
Will it be in this version 16?
Matt:
I think I was the one that said we'd consider it for a future version.
Could you help me understand why it's so important in your case? Is it about preventing kids from making changes, or something else?
Thanks.
MarkCoutinho:
My case is this: I have made playlists of every Top 40 chart from 1965 on. That means: 52 weeks per year. 45 Years now. Means: 52 x 45 lists = more than 2000 playlists.
They should never change of course - I take it I don't need to explain that, because the charts are the charts.
I sincerely hope you can/will implement this change.
Matt:
Oh, so all you need is to multi-select in the tree and have 'Lock' or 'Unlock' appear in the right-click menu?
This sounds better to me than inheriting locks, because I think that could get complicated.
MarkCoutinho:
Actually I did mean an inherit thing, but I guess a select and righ-click lock thing would do too.
For your information, this is how my trees with charts look like:
Top 40
--> 60's
--> --> 1965
--> --> --> Week 1
--> --> --> Week 2
etc.
--> --> 1966
-->-->--> Week 1
--> 70's
-->-->1971
-->---> ---> Week 1
-->---> ---> Week 2
So you (might) see that selecting and locking gets reduced to 45 years (means 45 times). Still a lot of work, but far better than 2000 times.
However, if you bump into some code that makes inheriting possible, you'll be my man of 2011! :-)
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