[mb-users] playlists and picard designs

[Aaron Cooper]

Let me begin by saying that I believe development for Picard has been
primarily handled by Lukas and he would probably be better suited to
answer your questions.  I'll give them my best shot anyways.

On Jan 11, 2008 9:53 AM, Will Holcomb <wholcomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so album ordering is maintained in the id3 tags. I use amarok the bulk
> of the time and it can generally does a pretty good job of managing
> metadata.
>
> I was wondering about the development path for Picard. I noticed a couple
> different interface designs listed on:
>
> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/IntuitivePicardInterface
>
> Before opening my mouth with comments, I wanted to have an idea of how fixed
> this interface is. I searched for IRC logs of the discussion where the
> decision was made and found discussion, but nothing that seemed particularly
> in-depth. I'm curious about the reasoning behind not going with the single
> pane interface. I generally think of dual panes as allowing you to see
> either different views of the same thing or completely orthogonal views of
> different things. It seems like picard is using them to represent a change
> in state which I would think could be done with a change in color or icon,
> and double your screen real estate.

The two pains are for performing different operations: the left panel
for adding files and organizing them into "Clusters" and the right
panel for loading data from MusicBrainz and moving the "Clusters" onto
the albums.  Songs in the left panel can also be analyzed and will
automatically be moved to the right panel and a corresponding MB
release if a PUID match is found.
>
> Is there an e-mail discussion or chatlog somewhere that goes into the
> reasoning?
>
> I was looking to try and lend a hand if I could, but looking at:
>
>
> http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/query?component=Picard+Tagger&milestone=Picard+Qt&order=status
>
> It seems like there are no open bugs. Am I understanding correctly?

Looking at http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/report/5 I see several open tickets.

> Will

Cheers,
-Aaron