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On 2010-02-22, Paul van Tilburg <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...] * Playing is sequential This is something that Moovida does not ensure very well. For example, while exploring you can accidently activate an album while listening to a webstream and Moovida immediately forgets about this and starts thealbum. There is no way back. The player should iterate over a list. This list can be cleared, reordered, history and future are available,and contains any sort of media item... tracks/tv show episode/movies/ entire albums/tv show seasons, etc. Combined with bookmarks remembering positions in long files (e.g. movies, TV shows, podcasts, livesets), this is a strong concept that appeals to the intuition of a lot of people. So, maybe very item could be either "played/view now" or "added to the list".
On this point, I should add that we should be extra careful when designing this playlist thing. A major annoyance to me in most media players is that playlists are flat and contain only one type of media (tracks). Enqueuing a whole album is easy (usually a one-click operation), but if for some reason you decide that you don't want to listen to this album anymore, you have to select all the tracks of the album to remove them from the playlist. That's of course very tied to the way I listen to music (by albums, very rarely by isolated tracks). Albums (and similarly TV show seasons and photo albums) should be first-class citizens in a playlist. That's especially important if we are to provide a powerful playlist system to be used easily with a remote control.
* Exploration is parallel [...]
Cheers, Olivier
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