Bug 62 - checkboxes to perform delete on multiple items
: checkboxes to perform delete on multiple items
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: Logitech Media Server
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Interface
: unspecified
: All All
: P2 enhancement with 6 votes (vote)
: Future
Assigned To: Blackketter Dean
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Reported: 2003-12-19 21:40 UTC by Blackketter Dean
Modified: 2008-06-03 14:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Blackketter Dean 2003-12-19 21:40:08 UTC
The Web interface should include a view with checkboxes to perform delete on multiple items up 
down button to shift tracks earlier and later in the playlist.
Comment 1 Vidur Apparao 2004-06-03 15:33:48 UTC
Doesn't the Default skin have this or am I missing something?
Comment 2 James Craig 2004-11-23 01:51:26 UTC
No it doesn't for multiple tracks. (Fishbone allows you to remove a whole album
from the playlist) 
It would be nice (with the default skin) to select a range of songs to
delete/move  etc. 
Like the checkboxes in gmail accounts?
Comment 3 Dan Sully 2005-02-05 10:50:40 UTC
Adding check boxes would clutter the UI quite badly.
Comment 4 James Craig 2005-02-07 04:03:36 UTC
I wouldn't have thought so - It's just adding a checkbox either alongside or in
place of the up/down/delete buttons for each track, and then a set of buttons
that affect all checked tracks at the top & bottom of the list?
Comment 5 James Craig 2005-05-12 13:03:10 UTC
I changed my mind about the move buttons but would really like to be able to
delete multiple tracks in one operation.
Comment 6 Blackketter Dean 2005-06-07 11:09:59 UTC
Moving bugs that won't be immediately fixed in 6.1 release. Please review and update if this is an error 
or if this bug has already been fixed.  Thanks.
Comment 7 James Craig 2005-06-08 01:24:38 UTC
I think that ExBrowse2 covers this pretty well although I'd still like a way to
delete multiple tracks.
Comment 8 David Studley 2006-07-25 13:39:00 UTC
I don't know if this is an additional or not. But I'd like to see the same for when you are adding tracks to the playlist.  Instead of choosing all tracks or a single track, check the desired tracks in the list and then click <Add to Playlist>

It would dramatically reduce the frustration creating manual playlists.

David
Comment 9 Jim McAtee 2006-07-25 16:12:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> I don't know if this is an additional or not. But I'd like to see the same for
> when you are adding tracks to the playlist.  Instead of choosing all tracks or
> a single track, check the desired tracks in the list and then click <Add to
> Playlist>
> It would dramatically reduce the frustration creating manual playlists.

I like this idea.  A lot.


(In reply to comment #3)
> Adding check boxes would clutter the UI quite badly.

??? Try it and see.  How much clutter should another box next to the controls be?  Or make it an option.  Or put it in a derivative skin using 6.5's skin inheritance.  Do _something_ to address the tedious web UI.
Comment 10 Blackketter Dean 2006-07-25 17:32:14 UTC
Subject: Re:  checkboxes to perform delete on multiple items up down button to shift tracks earlier and later in the playlist.


On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Slim Devices Bugzilla wrote:
> I don't know if this is an additional or not. But I'd like to see  
> the same for
> when you are adding tracks to the playlist.  Instead of choosing  
> all tracks or
> a single track, check the desired tracks in the list and then click  
> <Add to
> Playlist>
> It would dramatically reduce the frustration creating manual  
> playlists.
So, if you navigate to a single song and press the ADD button, it  
does add a single track to the playlist.  This is actually fewer  
operations than trying to select some set of tracks then add them all  
together at once.

Comment 11 Mike Gilpin 2006-09-25 12:44:05 UTC
(In reply to comment #10)
> Subject: Re:  checkboxes to perform delete on multiple items up down button to
> shift tracks earlier and later in the playlist.
> 
> 
> On Jul 25, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Slim Devices Bugzilla wrote:
> > I don't know if this is an additional or not. But I'd like to see  
> > the same for
> > when you are adding tracks to the playlist.  Instead of choosing  
> > all tracks or
> > a single track, check the desired tracks in the list and then click  
> > <Add to
> > Playlist>
> > It would dramatically reduce the frustration creating manual  
> > playlists.
> So, if you navigate to a single song and press the ADD button, it  
> does add a single track to the playlist.  This is actually fewer  
> operations than trying to select some set of tracks then add them all  
> together at once.
> 

Fewer operations - yes - but still faster, since only the last click requires processing outside the browser. The first set of clicks (of the checkboxes) would all be local in the browser UI, especially if it was fully Ajaxed.
Comment 12 Mike Gilpin 2006-09-25 12:46:19 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Adding check boxes would clutter the UI quite badly.
> 

Have you checked out the way list management works in Netflix? Look at their Queue tab.

In fact this site is masterful in its use of Ajax, including simulation of modeless child windows "popping up" over the browser (simulated by graying out the background and repainting the middle of the client area, with a Close-X button in the upper right corner of the "popup."

Worth emulating.
Comment 13 Chris Owens 2008-06-03 14:59:50 UTC
The web UI has been much improved along these lines.  If there are specific new ideas, please open a new bug.