GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 46748
want a nice way to continue listening to an MP3 after hearing preview without starting over
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
If I mouseover a music file, and decide that I want to listen to the enitre thing, I have to click up a context menu and fire up mpg123 or whatever (actually, I usually go find it in XMMS, but yeah). However, this cuts out the music, and it starts again. Perhaps allowing the music to continue as you operate a context menu, and having a 'Keep Playing' entry would be cool. * REPRODUCIBLE: Always * STEPS TO REPRODUCE: Mouseover a music file. Decide you want to listen to the whole thing. Right click, or mouse out. Yeah. ;) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:58 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Louie: I think this is can't fix.
Jeff: yeah, any idea how this would work? I really can't think of any, unless mpg123 and xmms are a heck of a lot smarter than I think they are...
Okay, so, I had a dream about this the other night. You know those little widgetty tooltips that IE6 has? Imagine getting a little tooltip toolbox when you roll over a Nautilus icon. With music files, it could have a play/pause/etc panel thingy. When you roll over for a few milliseconds, and hit play, it continues playing instead of killing mpg123 when you roll off it. That's basically it. The possibility to get Nautilus to *not* kill mpg123 when you roll off.
OK, I have no idea what the IE6 things are but I think I get the point. Way, way future :)
I think this is a stupid bug that should be terminated with extreme prejudice. Can I kill it? Thanks.
I think so :)
A better way to fix this usability issue might be this: When you move the mouse away the currently playing song, it should pause the music, not stop it, and resume playback when you put the mouse back on the file. This would also fix the problem of having to hold the mouse over the file.