Bugzilla – Bug 6086
Rhapsody: Adding a track/album to library
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:19:37 UTC
Currently when you click on a track/album in the Now Playing Screen it takes you into another menu screen with info about the artist, etc. The action items are located at the bottom: Add album to library Add track to library These choices should be at the top of the menu. In addition, we could reinforce the ADD icon here instead of text. Once you select the item or press "Add," the confirmation would be better communicated by using the toast popup from the bottom similar to adding a playlist. Currently, you go into another screen that is confusing on whether the addition has taken place.
Noah: I have no idea what this is. Is this in the web interface, the player interface or the Jive interface? Can you give a little more info?
The comment was made while using the Jive interface [under Rhapsody] navigating through Now Playing list of artist from a playlist.
Brian: can you review this as you look at the Jive UI?
I had kind of a hard time replicating this because of getting Rhapsody up and running, but I agree, the action items should be at the top and more prominent. I think we discussed a similar such problem on the SC UI a few weeks back and came up with a similar solution. If we can use the same layout that would be great.
Please note that the same menu structure is used everywhere (player, web, Jive), you can't just change it for Jive.
Moving these items up closer to the top seems reasonable to me and reasonable to do for all UIs. Is the logic for this ordering centralized, Andy?
It's easy to move them, but are you sure you want to do that? I find I hardly ever use add/remove and more often use the menu to find out more info about the track, and I'd hate having to always scroll past add or remove items.
The real question is: Do action items always bubble to the top? I think that the answer is yes. This would include, when appropriate: Play Add Play All Add All Add Album To Library Remove Album From Library Add Track To Library Remove Track From Library etc... Brian: do you agree?
I'd have to see it in action, but I think I would agree
Done, I've moved all the add/remove Rhapsody items to the top.
Right clicking a Rhapsody playlist in production SN loads the tracklist and shows the first track which is what one might expect. In SN beta however, same action shows a metadata of the playlist with "tracks" as the fourth item and "remove playlist from library" as the first menu item. This is counter-intuitive. When I click through into a playlist I expect to play it or browse its tracks, not delete it. Removing a playlist using SB3 is much less common than wanting to get into the playlist Also, it is all too easy to remove a playlist by mistake the way it is set up now in SN beta Rhapsody playlists can take a long time to build one track a time, and removing them by mistake is not a recoverable operation. Thus I would propose hiding the option to delete a playlist, and enabling playing/browsing the playlist as the default top menu action
Brian, Dean, what do you think?
Remove should definitely not be at the top of the list. People click through inadvertantly all the time. Playing the playlist should be the first item, like Play All in the Music Library.
OK, I will move the "Tracks (NN)" menu item to the top, this is the list of tracks and you can hit play to play all. I will move the 'Remove' items back to the bottom... Do you want 'Add playlist to library' as the second item?
We have discussed this idea in the past, however, when deleting anything from SC or Jive a confirmation pop-up would solve this issue no? It is easy to select an option by mistake. For actions that are difficult to recover a simple confirmation screen or pop-up would allow the user to have an "undo."
The major use case here is playing or browsing into the list, not deleting it and certainly not while in SB3. IMHO this whole additional menu level is of questionable value. # Action: Remove playlist from library # Text: Playlist: XXX # Text: Playlist Length: 12:22:41 # Play: Tracks (198) # Text: Created: 2007-03-26 08:53:08 # Text: Last Modified: 2008-01-21 14:14:08
I like that menu, and it's certainly valuable. If you don't want to use it, just hit Play on the playlist title on the parent level.
Fixed. I moved the 'remove' items to the bottom and added 'Play' items to the top of album menu, channel menu, and playlist menu.
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