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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000699 | MMW v4 | Playlist / Search | public | 2003-09-07 13:46 | 2007-09-11 17:05 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | low | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0000699: Advanced Proximity detection/prevention for Now Playing and standard Playlists | ||||
| Description | The proximity prevention functionality described in 0001453 & 0001455 would be very useful for standard playlists and the now playing list. This could be implemented as a feature configured via the options panel that would: -Show tracks that violate the proximity rules in red -Show the tracks that violate the proximity rules in faded red (if the user has configured that such tracks should be skipped). -Give the user a warning that allows them to skip adding such tracks This could be configured via Tools|Options|Library|Playlists: in the Playlists box add: [x] Provide warning [x] Show tracks that violate proximity rules in red . .[ ] Skip playback of tracks that violate proximity rules . . Proximity Rules: . . Add proximity Rules... --The properties available in the dropdown would be: Properties | Condition | Value Properties would be: Title (refers to any track with an equivalent title); Track last played (refers to that particular track); Artist; Album; Genre; Year Conditions would be: -last played > ; this means that it can only be added to the list if it was last played > x hrs ago AND if it doesn't appear within x hours on the playlist -last listed > ; this means that it can only be added to the list if it doesn't appear within x hours on the playlist Value would be: __ hrs By default there would be a proximity rule for: Title Last Listed > 2 hrs The error message can be: 'This track is in violation of the proximity rules that you've configured. Play it anyway? [ ] Don't ask me again . . . . . . [[Yes]] [No]' | ||||
| Additional Information | http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1762 http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1291 http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=537 | ||||
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Rather than preventing duplicates in a playlist, it would make more sense to simply indicate to the user if a duplicate appears in a playlist. e.g. show duplicate titles in red. The user can act on this as he/she sees fit. If it's easier, and if it's not too computationally expensive, this functionality could simply be used for _any_ tracklisting (whether the tracklist belongs to a playlist or the 'Artist' node, or.... |
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Note: On most radio stations Duplicates in playlists are compared also with Last time played something like: Warn if track is played xx hours ago. Example: Song of a day, is played at least every two hours but all other songs should not be played again for at least xx hours. |
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Apparently, this is more work than I'd envisioned, so Jiri and I decided to push this to a future release (and that for 2.5 we should just add some basic functionality to prevent duplicates within a playlist). |
