GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139646
Drag and Drop Problems
Last modified: 2006-01-27 08:46:09 UTC
When I drag music files into the playlist that don't exist in Rhythmbox's database, nothing happens (however, I believe Rhythmbox is storing the new files into its database after this happens) I have to drag the files a second time into the playlist in order to get them to show up. It would make much more sense if Rhythmbox added the files to its internal database and also added the files to the end of the playlist. Another issue is that none of this works unless I drag the files near one of the songs already in the playlist. I cannot drag the music into the empty space underneath the other songs, unless I aim just underneath the very last song. And finally, if I drag a folder of songs to the playlist, Rhythmbox crashes. A nice addition would be to add plugins to the Gnome right-click menu that allow you to queue or play the music, but that's just idle suggestion. ;)
*** Bug 149006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/285854.
The first problem (having to drag it twice) has been fixed if you drag to the playlist source, but it doesn't appear to have been fixed if you drag to the entryview (songlist). I'll get on to fixing that. The second and third problems don't seem to occur anymore, so I assume they have been fixed somewhere along the line.
This should be fixed by the patch attached to bug 318308
(In reply to comment #0) > When I drag music files into the playlist that don't exist in Rhythmbox's > database, nothing happens (however, I believe Rhythmbox is storing the new files > into its database after this happens) I have to drag the files a second time > into the playlist in order to get them to show up. It would make much more > sense if Rhythmbox added the files to its internal database and also added the > files to the end of the playlist. This if fixed in CVS HEAD if you drag individual files. > Another issue is that none of this works unless I drag the files near one of the > songs already in the playlist. I cannot drag the music into the empty space > underneath the other songs, unless I aim just underneath the very last song. Again this is fixed in HEADfor individual songs dragged into the empty area. > And finally, if I drag a folder of songs to the playlist, Rhythmbox crashes. In CVS HEAD, dragging a folder to a playlist will now add the songs in the folder to the library but *not* to the playlist. This appears to be the only outstanding issue on this bug, otherwise it could be closed. > A nice addition would be to add plugins to the Gnome right-click menu that allow > you to queue or play the music, but that's just idle suggestion. ;) Probably the nautilus-actions can be setup to do that.
Created attachment 58178 [details] [review] Patch which fixes drag-and-drop of directories to static playlists This is a patch which addresses the last remaining issue on this bug: dragging and dropping directories. It is a one-liner, spaces in the relative URIs weren't being escaped properly.
Committed to cvs, thanks (changed to free the string for the escaped path). This should fix the remaining issue in this bug, so marking FIXED.