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A comment on the idea "Please add an official Playlist Pane!" in Songbird:

@CK: So where do you get your insider information about user practices?
The way I see it, you've made your point clear - and I don't see how bloating this discussion conforms to your beloved unix philosophy. – killersquirrel, on January 21, 2009 04:26

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@moshy
Thanks for the update. I'm looking forward to see your plugin updated and working with 1.0. Have you ever talked with the developers regarding integrating your addon into the core? As you can it is very often requested here.

The idea to modify the current or create a new playlist is a very good one. Maybe a dropdown switcher for the playlists as I already suggested would be nice.

One comment for your screenshot: The options "Remove it from the queue" and "Scroll the list to the next track" should be able to work at the same time. Imagine you made a list which you want to play randomly. After playing a song you want to remove it and you also want the list to scroll to the next track. So please make checkboxes for these options instead of radio buttons.

One more thing. Let me insert here Winamp screenshot with a short description of it's behavior:


I think this is what most people (including me) are looking for.

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killersquirrel replied on January 07, 2009 10:57 to the idea "Please add an official Playlist Pane!" in Songbird:

@Prunn: of course that is a way to add songs to the end of a playlist - but you still have to switch back and forth between playlist and library to put the songs in the right order or simply to control which songs are already included - each move from one view to the other takes time to load and you have to do a new search just to return to where you were..
Wouldn't it be better to be able to drag&drop songs directly where you want them in the playlist? I find it kind of strange that this wasn't included from the beginning.. just like the missing "now playing" list (and yes, I know that there was an extension for this issue - but it doesn't work in the current release).
Concerning usability, Songbird still has a far way to go - I'm really looking forward to future releases, but in the meantime I have to rely on other players, such as MediaMonkey.

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