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More => Old Versions => Media Center 12 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: ChrisRainman on February 24, 2007, 11:34:43 am
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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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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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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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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.