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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0019901 | MMA | Playlists | public | 2023-03-28 15:55 | 2025-09-12 21:45 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | feedback | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 2.0.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 2.1.1 | ||||
| Summary | 0019901: Add to Playlist contains extra steps | ||||
| Description | The current workflow for adding a track to a playlist is: Select track > Add to playlist > Tap PlaylistX --> Prompt to Add to: Playlist X ? Tap Add Two improvements would be: 1) Get rid of the Prompt to 'Add to: Playlist X ? (except in the case of a newly created playlist) 2) In the list of playlists, highlight recently-used playlists so that the user doesn't have to hunt around for the playlist Note: the first suggestion should be trivial to implement which is why I've tagged this as 'urgent'. If the second suggestion is non-trivial, we can push it. | ||||
| Additional Information | Raised at https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=103954 (item 7) | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | |||||
| related to | 0020075 | closed | martin | Unclear how to create a new playlist: the Add to Playlist dialog's 'Create' button is hidden under keyboard (regression) |
| related to | 0021772 | new | martin | Add/Remove from Playlist contextual commands require too many steps |
| related to | 0019942 | resolved | martin | Common actions require more clicks/work in 2.x (regression) |
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My point in the original request, linked to above, was as follows: • if I am in MMA and am editing a specific playlist • and I press the magnifying glass icon and search|navigate, and make a track(s) selection from outside of that playlist • and I select the Add To Playlist option for that selection, it can be assumed that I want the selection to be added to the playlist that I am editing Instead I have to scroll through the list of all my playlists, select the one I am already in, and then confirm the action. This adds some scrolling & two clicks for every selection that I want to add to the playlist via this route. ... Why? |
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The reason for not including Barry's suggestion is because it's not necessarily the case that when editing a particular playlist that the user would want tracks sent to _that_ playlist. e.g. - User edits Party 2, then seeaches for a track to send to Part 2 But a possible feature that would partially meet this suggestion would be to always show the currently active Playlist as the first item in the MRU list. |
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Peke suggested: 3) Maybe if possible due the fact we already introduced left side menu that on Select track > Add to playlist we show simple right side menu with list of playlists so that use simply tap on playlist he wants to add track too? Showing the playlists as a sub-menu might be an aesthetic improvement, but doesn't really improve the usability issue raised in this bug since: - it doesn't reduce the number of steps required - in contrast to the current dialog, this approach wouldn't work as well for adding tracks to a 'new' playlist (one that hasn't yet been created) |
