Bugzilla – Bug 7579
Warn before loading huge playlists
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:23:45 UTC
When users hit play on gigantic playlists it can take a long time to load, or simply not be the intended action. The controller (and maybe the squeezebox interface) should warn the user if they select an action that would add > 1000 tracks to the playlist. Example: Bob browses his music collection, and selects "play all" on 50,000 tracks. "This operation would add XX,XXX tracks to the playlist, are you sure?" Of course this could be a controller setting so users could disable the warning.
Excellent suggestions. Although (through self-training) I have not done this for some time, it is certainly a trap for young players. An alternative approach (although likely to be more work), would be for the operation to behave a little like erland's DynamicPlaylists: initially only, say, 25 tracks are added to the playlist, but as the playlist plays through, additional tracks are added.
if this is implemented it will need a string translation, therefore moving to priority P1
This is not going to make it in to 7.1
Unassigned bugs cannot have a priority.