I think both my requests have to be considered together since they only make sense if both are implemented in either 'library view' or 'playlist', not one in 'library view' and the other in 'playlist'.
Did you every try Amarok 2?
It has a good (though not very good) ability to customize what is shown in the playlist and most importantly where.
For example the layout I used to use is in the attachment.
This does not save space but shows even fairly long artist/album/track names completely without hogging more than half of my widescreen. Artist/album is only mentioned once until the next artist/album -> no useless repetition.
This makes it generally very nice to browse.
Of course no two people like the same layout, so how about sort of cloning Amarok 2's layout editor?
But here comes the catch:
I like to select what music should be played next by simply typing the artists name or something into the search box.
Gua then shows every result just as it should.
But then I have to clear playlist, mark search result, hit play, hit randomize.
Amarok did all of this automatically because in Amarok I did not search the library but the playlist (had everything in one playlist). Gua can't do that.
As a conclusion I see several solutions to this:
-Add a feature that (randomly or not) plays only the songs visible in library view. Make library view layout customizable.
-Make playlist searchable just like library view (just as fast too). Make it possible to play playlist randomly without shuffling the entries and thus distorting the layout. Make playlist layout customizable.
-Do nothing. Bad option IMO ^^
Of course customizable layout would be optional in all solutions (search result playback is much more important!), it just wouldn't make any sense to mix solutions.
I hope all this makes sense to anybody else. I could test SVN with daily usage once you start implementing this
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Thank you.
PS: In whatever GUI element gets the role of selecting music fast, there should be an option to hierarchically sort by different tags just as seen in the upmost part of the attachment. This is just a note to keep in mind. This will have to become a request of its own.