2008-07-21, 20:37
kraqh3d Wrote:This has been a cause of some recent user headaches, though I'm not sure why it's recent. This change was done more than a year ago.
But, I have been considering making a change to alleviate these issues by having the SELECT action be configurable when invoked on a playable item. My idea is to make it configurable to either PLAY or QUEUE actions. (There's a thread on this someplace as well. I just haven't gotten around to it yet.)
Today, it's represents PLAY action which clears the current queue, and then adds the item to the queue and starts playback. If you change it to QUEUE, the item will just be appended to the existing queue.
(And the Now Playing window just represents the current play queue. It's the same exact screen that the BLACK button would toggle to, and in fact, Xbmc can still do that, though it may not be part of the default keymap anymore.)
The PLAY/QUEUE toggle would definitely help for sure!
I can still use BLACK to toggle to the 'Now Playing' window which is great. I guess the issue is the fact that the person has to be certain to only use YELLOW to queue or else they will delete their entire playlist. I think people instinctively press GREEN.
Also, I believe there is an option in the Settings that allows you to change the default behaviour when pressing GREEN on a song correct? By default, it will clear your Now Playing window and add every other song in the current directory you're in underneath the current playing item as 'queued' items. I believe you can turn this off to have XBMC only queue the single item you pressed GREEN on correct? If so, changing the default to QUEUE for the GREEN button would alleviate a big issue IMHO.