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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: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 23:22:27 +0100 (MET) agree ! don`t pollute good software with features which correct "user`s bad practice". better tell the users how to do it right (i.e. create reasonable playlists) regards Roland > Greg Haerr wrote: > > It's not that big a deal - the current version won't play a song at > > all with an invalid path prefix, so it's not likely this approach will > > play many "incorrect" songs. > > :-) > > > The feature that is being requested > > will allow Rockbox to play playlists that currently don't work _at all_. > > And guess why they don't work? Because they contain invalid path names. > > > In a non-technical-user-based device, I think it's always better > > for the device to do something, than nothing. And if the wrong > > song were ever to be played, you can always hit the "next" button. > > I don't agree. The user would not understand what is happening. I can > smell the bug report from here: > > "Wrong song is played when I play a playlist" > > I think it's better to do nothing than to do the wrong thing. > > I'd rather have good documentation on how to create correct playlists > than to have Rockbox cluttered with code that corrects mistakes made by > the user. > > Creating a correct playlist is such a simple thing. > > > I think the point here is to have Rockbox run playlists without having > > to muck with them. Archos does, so should we... > > I still don't agree. The Archos firmware does it, good for them. I never > have to "muck" with my playlists, because they are correct, without any > extra path information. > > /Linus > -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!Received on 2003-01-05 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |