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Bug 761591 - Add play controls to albums
Add play controls to albums
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-music
Classification: Applications
Component: general
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-music-maint
gnome-music-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-02-05 14:11 UTC by Allan Day
Modified: 2018-01-10 14:48 UTC
See Also:
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Description Allan Day 2016-02-05 14:11:36 UTC
Currently, if you want to play an album, you have to select the first track to stay playback. This isn't the best experience. The user wants to play the whole album: they don't care what the first track is, nor should they have to think about tracks at all. Ideally there would just be a big play button for the album as a whole.

The current situation is also sub-optimal if you want to shuffle or repeat play an album, since you have to pick a track to stay playback, and then select shuffle/repeat. Not only is this a lot of work, but it forces the user to pick a track, which isn't what they want for shuffle play.

Mockups for album play controls:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/music/windowed-artists.png

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/music/windowed-album.png

The ... button would show a popover with actions for shuffle and repeat play.
Comment 1 Akash Talreja 2016-02-26 13:40:46 UTC
can I work on this issue I've already made some contribution to Getting things Gnome on github and I'm familiar with modules used in gnome application development.
Comment 2 Prashant Tyagi 2016-02-27 05:36:03 UTC
(In reply to Akash Talreja from comment #1)
> can I work on this issue I've already made some contribution to Getting
> things Gnome on github and I'm familiar with modules used in gnome
> application development.

i am already working on it from some days.
Comment 3 Christopher Lee Murray 2016-03-25 02:05:32 UTC
I looked at the proposed mockups. I think it would be more minimal to have the play button and shuffle button side by side, and appear when the cursor hovers over the cover art(the cover art would shade). Either that or they are evenly distributed below the cover art in a similar fashion to that in the mockups.

It seems like even I'm excited to try.
Comment 4 Marinus Schraal 2016-05-11 21:12:04 UTC
I remember seeing some mock-ups/semi-working code for this. Any update on the progress?
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-01-10 14:48:31 UTC
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