[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.
Christopher Kerr
mythtv at theseekerr.com
Thu Aug 13 23:58:56 UTC 2015
On 13 August 2015 at 21:03, Roger Siddons <dizygotheca at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> The "playlist" term is a confusion between:
>
> 1. "THE playlist", as in "the list of tracks that are currently
> playing/queued to play", and
> 2. "A playlist", as in "a specific order of favourite tracks that you
> assemble and save to replay later".
>
> Consequently you get a "Playlist Options" dialog with options to "Save to
> New Playlist" (2) & "Save To Existing Playlist" (1?).
>
> I'm not a big user of music apps but IMHO this seems to bedevil all of
> them. They can circumvent the issue by UI design (layout, menubars,
> tooltips), which MythMusic cannot use. It has the (severe) restriction of
> using only buttonlists & dialogs, so terminology becomes crucial.
>
> I wonder if introducing a new term for (1) would resolve some confusion.
> What's a standard, intuitive term for the "Now playing list" ?
>
Many music players call this the "Play Queue" or similar.
I agree that resolving this ambiguity would, at least, make it easier to
explain how MythMusic works.
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