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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: ignoring paths when playingg from playlistsRe: ignoring paths when playingg from playlists
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 00:16:09 +0100 (MET) Joaquim, >"polluting good software with features which correct user's bad practice", this sentence was from me. I read all the postings regarding this and would like to revise what i said before. Sorry - I`ve had a too much "technical oriented" point of view. (y`know - it`s the geek-factor in all of us :) There is one point, which will add some more success to rockbox (we like success - do we?) : Eease of use and "forgiving users making errors" ! So, IMHO this feature should be: INCLUDED! regards Roland > What I'm saying next is just my humble opinion, I'll shut up if > you tell me to. > > Ease of use should be a concern. Rockbox should please the users > and not antagonize them or force them to be technical if they do > not want to. > > One can say that a playlist with songs like > c:\windows\users\lammer\desktop\my music\somealbum\song1.mp3 > is "wrong" and from a strict point of view it is, but many users > are not technically oriented and do not want to be. Some piece of > software wrote those playlists, not them! > > Rockbox already strips c: because it knows of no c: > then it should strip \windows if there's no \windows directory on > the archos disk and so on until it finds an existing directory. > > I would not call it "polluting good software with features which > correct user's bad practice", it's not the user's fault that some > crappy piece of software wrote "bad" playlists, most non technical > users just want to listen to the damn songs, they don't care about > paths and hard disks. > > How will you feel if you go to the doctor in need of open heart > surgery to survive and he tells you you've done the wrong thing > smoking and eating greasy stuff all your life so he will not > operate on you and use a perfectly good valve replacement to > correct the problems caused by your bad behaviour? > > I'm afraid a new digital dark age may be coming and the technical > guys should fight as hell to close the gap, enlighten people and > bring them to the right side. Pleasing people is a good start, > telling them they're lamers is not. > > Joaquim > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!Received on 2003-01-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |