Feature request - multiple selection

Submitted by Dragon on Tue, 2007-08-14 16:33

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Hello,
first of all, I would like to thank Damian for creating such an awesome application. First time I managed to compile MOC and ran it, I knew that I would never have to start XMMS again :-) (and I haven't).

Just one thing that I stumbled upon - maybe I just haven't dug enough, but is there a possibility to select multiple tracks at once? So that I could move them in the playlist at once? Say I have my mp3s named Track_1 to Tracl_18. Then, when the directory is loaded, the files are ordered like Track_1 Track_10 ... Track_18 Track_2 ... Track_9 and then, I have to move them one by one :-(.

Thanks for your answer :-)
Have a nice day!

Dragon

daper

Tue, 2007-08-14 19:24

There is no way to select a file. If I understand you correctly, you want to select files and then issue the "add" command? It's the same amount of key presses to do using the a key :)

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Damian Pietras - MOC developer

Dragon

Tue, 2007-08-14 20:31

Hello Damian, thanks for you answer, however, my point is that I added the whole directory using the A key and then wanted to modify the playlist (lets say to swap the first half of the playlist with the second one as a chunk.

Or, lets say that I have several albums in my playlist (I often do), in this order:

[songs from album A]
[songs from album B]
[songs from album C]

and I would like to move the [songs from album C] between [songs from album A] and [songs from album B], so that the order would be like this:

[songs from album A]
[songs from album C]
[songs from album B]

moving this one by one is not very pleasant and deleting [songs from album B], searching for the directory and adding it again to the tail of the playlist is neither.

I don't know how many other users of the MOC would make use of this, but if the player could do this, it would make a great player even greater one :-).

Thanks and best wishes.

Dragon

DukeXC

Mon, 2007-10-08 08:16

I must say I agree, this is quite honestly the single feature I find lacking in mocp compared to other players - cplay, cmus, etc. Mocp handles scrolling, filetags and playing far better, it has much more intuitive controls...

But in a similar case to Dragon's, I often load dozens of albums into the playlist at a time. Now, if while I'm listening to an album I decide I want to hear another next - the album 3 plays away, for example, or an album I hadn't loaded in at all - I'd like a way to append it into the playlist without erasing half the playlist.