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Post by hyphenistic on Mar 12, 2013 11:53:52 GMT -5
It would be nice to be able to display the current Smart list on the Now Playing screen.
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Post by GoneMAD on Mar 12, 2013 13:48:40 GMT -5
thats a bit difficult with how things are setup at the moment. In gmmp you are never really playing a folder, or playlist file, or smart playlist.. just loading the contents into the active queue.
In the case where you play a smart playlist... what happens if you select another song to play next? is that original smart playlist still what is displayed?
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Post by hyphenistic on Mar 12, 2013 14:04:13 GMT -5
I use iTunes to tag and organize my music and then sync it to my phone with FolderSync. I have everything broken down into four genres. Most of my music falls under Family. I put the stuff I like that my wife doesn't or isn't kid friendly under a genre of my name. I do the same for my wife's music. Then I have a Christmas genre. I then have a smart list for myself that includes my genre and Family and a smart list for Family which includes Family and my wife's genre. I have each list randomly sorted. So when I'm at work or commuting I get a random mix of my music. When the rest of the family is in the car I switch over to the Family mix. What I'm looking for is an easy way to identify which list I last selected. I understand how there'd be no way to identify which list you're in simply based on the current song. Would it be hard to populate a Last List tag when you start playing a song from the list? Understandably it would not always be accurate if I went out and picked another song but for me it would let me quickly see what list I'm most likely listening to.
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Post by GoneMAD on Mar 12, 2013 15:46:07 GMT -5
sounds like you could just select genre as one of the tags displayed in now playing and that would do what you wanted
prefs -> now playing -> displayed tags
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Post by hyphenistic on Mar 12, 2013 15:51:58 GMT -5
I thought about that as a temporary workaround. Most of my music is under the Family genre. So there's a good chance that a Family song will be playing. I won't know if one of my artists is playing until I hear it. If I don't happen to be near the phone or volume controls at the time then I can't easily skip the song. So that's why I need to know the last list played. It's not a big deal and I wouldn't expect a lot of time to be put into it if any. I just thought I'd ask in case it would be an easy tag to implement.
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Post by GoneMAD on Mar 12, 2013 16:23:47 GMT -5
i can look into it
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