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km player is great you can generate playlists easily for a directory, one click

cant speak for karel, but i find kinetic to scroll when i do not want it to more often when i want it to...

btw, gpe player may be just the thing. the library tag may freak out when adding thigs at times, but thats just the display, it still addds the song to the library.

It doesn't work. And why would I want to dump a precise scrolling interface (the slider) for a totally imprecise one?

I can see how someone who is more interested in the user interface than in the actual data might like it, but personally I'm more in favour of actually being able to find my music.

Hm, I see. I do see your point, but I always thought that kinetic scrolling feels "more natural" -- to me anyway.

I asked this because I'm developing a text-editor for one of my applications and it uses kinetic scrolling. This makes me think that maybe there should be an option to turn it off...

XMMS can do it. Go to a folder and click the "Add all in folder" button and you're good.

I use mpd + sonata for folder-based browsing. It does tag-based browsing as well if you want to. Also, playlists, etc.

Using a client/server architecture has some other advantages:

• can control music from the command line as well
• can use other programs to control music. For instance, I made a hardware play/pause button with powerlaunch (press power then fullscreen).
• can use sonata to access mpd running on other computers (e.g. my computer at home which is connected to my stereo)

Problem with some kinetic scrolls: speed not right, accelaration//decelaration not right or non-existent & too touch sensitive (enters choice instead of dragging). Kilikali's OK for a light app. Kagu has an option to overlay a nice thick scrollbar on top of kinetic. BTW Kagu's not folder-browsable, has playlists and sorts your music by album, genre, artists' hairstyles, cover-art failures and the usual useless junk.

Canola2 is better than the rest so far: browse by folders (My music, drag to the bottom of the list). Settings: get rid of refresh media at startup for quick load but first scan your SD cards for 3 types there (music, photos & movies). I put the more changable music files on external which is the only place it looks for (has to be set-nice too) list update. Slideshow/photoview's better than quiver/mirage IMHO w/ zoom & more and can watch them while music plays. Switches nicely between the two & keeps folder place, bookmark, in photo folder. Easy intuitive menus & Graphite theme's easy on the eye. Video/pod Casts + nice youtube search engine & display. 10 second bootup after setup tweak.

For quick jobs Kilikali's best at 2 second bootup and look at it's file menu's add-songs popup as a sort of folder browsing. There should be at least a button/icon not just file-menu, same for clearing list. Like the gui. Main problem: playhead not draggable back/forth.

Have a few thousand photos and ~ a thousand mp3s, scanned them into Canola & disabled refresh @ startup (too long), keeps freezing on bootup. Tried everything, killing processes, checked the c2 apps subforum notes, c2-cleaner, etc. etc. & after each reinstall it dies. Problem seems to be the large number of db entries. Biggest waste of time for a while.

Why do we need: dispersed junk files, large ever-crashing databases on slow SD cards, useless playlists' rituals, cover-art junk procedures, odd media management routines which are a PITA, etc., that keeps crashing, freezing/locking, slowing the OS with their procedures & size, messing up the file system, ...?

Why can't we just browse and refresh live in these media apps as any sane user has their media sorted out in their preferred folder structures and levels? Which will work, be faster, not mess up the machine, simpler to code and use, logical, light and more?

Bye Canola too.

KISS: Keep It Small & Simple.

Same experience here... C2 is worthless if you have more than just a handful of files, IMHO.

Sadly because it's only a small percentage of users who have a clean file and folder structure.
I can image many people have one "My Music" folder where they throw in all the files they download, having such descriptive names as 4786879658.mp3 or 4678326548.wma. Without indexing the ID tags, it would be just a mess.
MediaBox once started with folder-only browsing without any indexing. Then users began to complain that they have hundreds of files in a folder and can't browse by artist, by genre, by album. The folder browsing was fine for me, because I have every album in a subfolder, which I just drop onto the SD card, but apparently not for all users.