GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 330106
rating songs while the songs are sorted by rating behaves strangely
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:20:00 UTC
While the list of songs are sorted by rating and you click on the stars to rate a song, the song disappears, since the list is sorted by rate the and the song now has a different rate it change place. But I believe this behavior is not expected and is bad, since the user will not see how many stars he just gave the song, what if he made a mistake? how can he know? The reordering of the list is a confusing factor, I myself had classified "the same song" two or three times just to find out that each time I was clicking in a different song. My suggestion is that the list either get to an unsorted state after a change in a field that is the sort key for the moment (better in my opinion) or the view should follow the music that was just rated or updated in any way. Other information:
*** Bug 334105 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Rhythmbox doesn't currently have an "unsorted" option for track lists, it's always sorted by something. Jumping to the track also has some issues, both technical (what should it do if multiple tracks are selected?) and practical (it would be annoying if the user wanted to rate several tracks).
I agree that the song list should change the least possible, but in the current state it is easy to make a mistake, rating songs that you do not wish. And can I ask why does it don't have an unsorted state for the list? A unsorted list, witch you can drag and drop music into position is the only way to select the order you want (by turning the shuffle off). Playing music in alfabetical order is not very usefull, while choosing the order you want is very usefull. (while I agree that this is another feature request)
If you want to play tracks in a specific order (which isn't by track# or alphabetical), you should use a playlist (or the play queue in 0.9.3). Normal (non-automatic) playlists use drag-and-drop reordering.
How about a changing order action, like rating a list ordered by rate, create a temporary "play list" that holds the list in the order it is before the action? This could be either a "hidden" action, so the user does not see this pseudo list being created and he only views a unsorted list that can be reordered by drag and drop and can be rated without changing at all and as a second option this could be "out in the open", so when the user rates the song it would create a temporary playlist with a good name and the user can either continue to use it. I think, my opinion, that this limitation of can only be sorted on the 'library' is artificial and leads to unexpected behaviour. I, as user would welcome the ability to order my library and find it very hard to correct the mistakes that the automatic rating system does.
*** Bug 337019 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Video illustrating problem from bug #337019: http://librarian.launchpad.net/1922026/desktop-recording.ogg
*** Bug 362309 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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