<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 August 2015 at 21:03, Roger Siddons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dizygotheca@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">dizygotheca@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><div><br></div><div>The "playlist" term is a confusion between: </div><div><br></div><div>1. "THE playlist", as in "the list of tracks that are currently playing/queued to play", and</div><div>2. "A playlist", as in "a specific order of favourite tracks that you assemble and save to replay later".<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Consequently you get a "Playlist Options" dialog with options to "Save to New Playlist" (2) & "Save To Existing Playlist" (1?).</div><div><br></div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder if introducing a new term for (1) would resolve some confusion. What's a standard, intuitive term for the "Now playing list" ?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Many music players call this the "Play Queue" or similar.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree that resolving this ambiguity would, at least, make it easier to explain how MythMusic works. </div></div></div></div>