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#14 Resolve issue of importing non-MP3 files

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2001-01-22
2001-01-22
Mike Schrag
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What should the UI do? Should this be allowed or not? Should it warn? Change color? Not care?

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  • Mike Schrag

    Mike Schrag - 2001-01-22
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  • Mike Schrag

    Mike Schrag - 2001-01-22
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  • Daniel M. Zimmerman

    I think it should warn, personally. Perhaps even have a preference setting which toggles between having it allowed or not, in an "Advanced" preferences pane or something to that effect, and if it is allowed, warn (once per session, probably) when it happens.

     
  • Mike Schrag

    Mike Schrag - 2001-01-23

    I like the preferences idea ... I'll take a look at that.

     
  • Mike Schrag

    Mike Schrag - 2001-01-27

    I'm thinking this shouldn't make the next version .. It will require a modification to the preferences, the UI, and some other areas and probably isn't worth it for the next one.

     
  • Eric Smith

    Eric Smith - 2002-06-15

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    I've only been using my Rio Car for a month. I rushed to
    get the Rio Car installed before a three-week road trip, and
    used JEmplode to install my music library. So forgive me if
    this is a stupid comment, but how is it useful to allow
    non-MP3 files to be loaded? My mp3 directory contained 6386
    .mp3 files, but it also contained 497 .m3u files and about a
    dozen other files. Once I was on the road, I discovered
    that only about 600 of the
    .mp3 files had been loaded, despite leaving Jemplode running
    overnight, and no error message having been displayed.
    That's probably not related ot the non-mp3 file issue, but
    it did load a lot of the m3u files and other non-.mp3 files,
    and every time the player would try to play one, it would
    stop and I'd have to manually advance to the next track.

    After this, I feel fairly strongly that the default should
    be to only load mp3 files, or other files that the player
    knows how to handle.

    It also would be nice to turn .m3u files into playlists that
    the Rio Car can understand, but that's a separate issue so
    I'll open a feature request for that.

     

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