Allow to add files

[sanbor]

I'm using the last version and the buttons fillUpTo and addSome does the same: import the files from my music folder. I want to add files to the database with an Open dialog.

[albertz]

They are not doing the same thing, although in many cases something similar. addSome adds always some constant amount (I think 10) of songs to the list. fillUpTo fills the list up to a constant amount of songs (I think 10). If there are already more, it will do nothing. fillUpTo is also automatically called every time a song has finished.

There wont be an Open dialog by purpose. I don't want to rebuild a file browser. You are supposed to use your favorite file browser (maybe Finder on Mac) and just drag&drop songs from there into MusicPlayer.

In the future, there probably will be some config editor where you could change the default music directory. Although that is not really needed as you could just make a symlink in your music directory to any external directory.

Also, in the future, there will be a way to temporarily change the source of where the addSome/fillUpTo functionality gets its songs from.

[sanbor]

@albertz thanks for the answers. Here are my thoughts:

They are not doing the same thing, although in many cases something similar. addSome adds always some constant amount (I think 10) of songs to the list. fillUpTo fills the list up to a constant amount of songs (I think 10). If there are already more, it will do nothing. fillUpTo is also automatically called every time a song has finished.

Lol, I have only 10 files currently in my Music folder, because that I didn't noted the difference. However, it would be nice to add cleaner labels to this buttons, i.e. "Import all from the Music folder", "Import last 10 songs from the Music folder".

There wont be an Open dialog by purpose. I don't want to rebuild a file browser. You are supposed to use your favorite file browser (maybe Finder on Mac) and just drag&drop songs from there into MusicPlayer.

I think you don't have to rebuild a file browser for that. The open dialog it's an operating system dialog,

[albertz]

The amount of files you have on your disk shouldn't really matter in that case, though. The difference will appear nonetheless once you click a second time on any of the buttons.

Note that it is not really "importing" anything. It is adding some songs to the current play queue - nothing more, nothing less. By default, it searches in the main music directory for new songs. That will be configurable later.

It is also not adding everything from the music directory. That doesn't make sense. And that functionality does not exist. It only make sense to have a few songs in the queue.

The open dialog usually is too limited to be used to easily select a few songs. Also, it is modal for most OS and that is not really usable for a music player. Also, I think the current way to add songs is already simpler - isn't it? The current ways are:

• You use your standard file browser or any other file browser or OS search function to browse to the songs or search for the songs and drag them over.
• You use the search function of the music player.
• Any song which is shown in the queue of the music player has a button to automatically locate the song in the standard file browser. This makes it very easy to select other songs from the same directory or near that directory.
• Or you use the automatic intelligent song-adding functions. You can manually remove songs from the queue which you don't want to play.

If you anyway have only 10 songs on your computer, a music player which can only play songs from the filesystem doesn't make that much sense for you.