GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 567975
Items in play queue cannot be added to regular playlists
Last modified: 2020-03-17 09:02:44 UTC
The summary says it all. Why this is useful: - "Hey this is a nice song, let's move it to the "Party" playlist!" - consistency with the rest of the UI
I can confirm this in the svn trunk version.
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Modifying title, because this is not specific to drag and drop: it would also be nice to be able to add a track from the play queue to a playlist using the "Add to playlist" context menu item. This is a bit tricky to do right now: The Play queue can contain any type of tracks: music, videos, podcasts, etc. Currently we don't allow adding for example a video track to a music playlist. So we have to be careful to which playlist the tracks are added. And how could we handle that in the UI? On the technical side, the Play queue is not a PrimarySource, and is not related to a PrimarySource. Most of the code that handles adding tracks to playlists assumes that the tracks come from a source related to a PrimarySource, and uses that to enforce the above rule.
Looks like this bug has been composting for ~3.5 years... Is there fix for this in the works - or a suitable workaround? The original submitter is correct - the desire to react to what you're currently hearing by saving it to a playlist is something that comes up constantly, in my experience. Personally, I find the fact that playlists & the play queue don't share functionality confusing as heck. (Why can't I shuffle a playlist, for instance? Why can't I export the play queue, or turn it into a playlist?)
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.