Undo option for playlist

GiladB · 15th April 2002, 14:44

Why don't add and Undo option for the playlist.
Lets say that last time you used winamp you didn't save the playlist of some great songs in your huge mp3 libary, you closed winamp and do something else. next you accidently dubel click a mp3 file and the playlist been clean. Ain't that a bitch!
Now imagin you can undo that by clicking "List Option" --> "Undo"

X-Fixer · 15th April 2002, 16:35

Sawg, why it's still not in the official wishlist?

Yonkey · 15th April 2002, 16:38

I like the idea of the undo. But don't limit it to just undoing playlists, can you also make it undo the last action performed that changed the order of the playlist.

For example, if a file is removed from the playlist, the undo will restore that file to the correct position. The undo should work with adding files, reordering files, new playlists, loading playlists and opening playlists (like what GiladB said).

It doesn't have to have unlimited levels of undo or anything like that, just the last action. Oh, and if you make an undo, make a redo too!

GiladB · 15th April 2002, 18:39

Well that what i mean, but my english is not so good, so that what i could write. (i'm from israel, ME)
Who can i know if the winamp team will accept this idea?
who can give me an officl answer about that, in the fourm?

15th April 2002, 23:22

Quote:

Originally posted by X-Fixer
Sawg, why it's still not in the official wishlist?

I don't care enough to add it. Besides, isn't like anyone cares about this forum either. It is mostly people to lazy to read the documentation to find out how to actually do something.

c2R · 16th April 2002, 17:43

Quote:

Originally posted by Sawg 2.0
Besides, isn't like anyone cares about this forum either. It is mostly people to lazy to read the documentation to find out how to actually do something.

Harsh, but sadly all too true

GiladB · 17th April 2002, 17:45

well Sawg 2.0,
Is there an option to undo last change in the playlist?
if there isn't, there shold be.
Are you a paying employ of nullsoft?
if you do, you shold be better, and to give us (forum users) more help.

P.s i did read the documention, and i find nothing in there.
if there something there can you please show me.

17th April 2002, 20:19

>> Is there an option to undo last change in the playlist?
No

>> Are you a paying employ of nullsoft?
No

X-Fixer · 18th April 2002, 09:43

Quote:

Originally posted by Sawg 2.0

I don't care enough to add it. Besides, isn't like anyone cares about this forum either. It is mostly people to lazy to read the documentation to find out how to actually do something.

Anyway, you can't blame anyone before you'll add this to the official wishlist

DJ Egg · 19th April 2002, 10:45

There's a reference to it in The Official Winamp 2x Bug List

Misc glitches:

#1. (wishlist) "New playlist" command needs extra "save" confirmation - you can accidentially delete whole playlist without any warning. An undo option would also be pretty neat.

But it should really be in the wishlist because it's not a bug, it's a missing feature.

Naturally, an UNDO button can't be added to the main GUI because this would then make all skins incompatible. But it could be added to the main menu ?! Though it'd be much easier to just make a pop-up message appear, prompting to save current playlist first.

X-Fixer · 19th April 2002, 12:59

Egg, all of us know what UNDO is. It's not an extra confirmation or pop-up message, it's a feature that reverts your last action (*ANY*) when you press Alt-Baskspace (or CTRL-Z for newbies).

Though I personally do not need undo in playlist editor

DJ Egg · 19th April 2002, 14:55

That's not what I said my friend.
I said: an "Undo" command in Winamp's main menu (then yes, naturally the well known hotkey would also work too).

The pop-up confirmation message was Peter's suggestion from Official Buglist.
This would be for prompting if you want to save the current playlist before wiping it (List button -> New). I know, it doesn't really have much connection with "Undo" (I never said it did).

But... like the guys above said, none of it is ever likely to happen anyway

Besides all that, Ctrl+Z is already used by playlist (start of list hotkey)

Yonkey · 19th April 2002, 17:25

As for the skin compatibility, who said the undo had to be a button? Just add an option to the right click menu in the playlist editor or make it a hot-key shortcut.

peter · 19th April 2002, 17:34

i bitched about it ages ago, still no effect. i'm making this sticky.

DJ Egg · 20th April 2002, 00:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Yonkey
As for the skin compatibility, who said the undo had to be a button? Just add an option to the right click menu in the playlist editor or make it a hot-key shortcut.

Ummm... didn't I already say exactly the same thing above?

Why is everyone misunderstanding me today?

St00pid English language - 37 years of it so far for me... maybe I'll finally master it one day - LOL

Yes, an UNDO option somewhere in the main menu... NOT a button.
Either a command via rt click menu in playlist window only,
or in Winamp's main rt click menu, maybe under a "Playlist" subsection?
(this could include: open, save, undo, etc)

@Peter
Yeah! Tell it like it is!

Janssen · 2nd June 2002, 14:10

I would just.... love this feature.....

eliansays · 27th July 2002, 13:41

Quote:

Originally posted by GiladB
next you accidently dubel click a mp3 file and the playlist been clean.

here's my opinion on that, you all remember Audiogalaxy (R.I.P.) right? When you clicked 'play' on a file from their pages the song would BOTH get enqueued AND played!!

If this action was default for playing files, it would be impossible to accidently clear your playlist, please consider this, thanks

eliansays · 27th July 2002, 13:42

Quote:

Originally posted by GiladB
next you accidently dubel click a mp3 file and the playlist been clean

here's my opinion on that, you all remember Audiogalaxy (R.I.P.) right? When you clicked 'play' on a file from their pages the song would BOTH get enqueued AND played!!

If this action was default for playing files, it would be impossible to accidently clear your playlist, please consider this, thanks

X-Fixer · 29th July 2002, 09:52

To get such effect you can get Winamp Profiler and enable "play as enqueued".

eliansays · 31st July 2002, 18:07

great!!!

X-Fixer · 1st August 2002, 04:13

You are welcome. But why did you post twice ?

Though now I see that I haven't actually read the very first post (I've just seen the UNDO word), because "protect playlist" in Winamp Profiler is exactly what he is talking about (well, at least it's very close).

ChongMan · 13th August 2002, 06:42

I have like over 200 .mp3 on my list and my .mp3 are everywhere in my HD(Hard Drive) when i have new .mp3 I'll just add them in and forgot to save it.. Something I like the song so much and can't wait to listen to it and I'll open it and all my Winamp song are gone and I got very piss at it

cuz it will take me a long time to add them back in one by one after this happen a lot of time. Got me very piss I'll change my .mp3 sopport using MS Windows Media Player 6.4 to view my .mp3(s) so when I just want to open a new .mp3 I open it with WMP 6.4. Now need to worry about my list no more..

To View .mp3 using Windows Media Play 6.4:
-Open WMP 6.4
-Go to View ---> Options ----> Formats
-Under Available formats CHUCK "MP3 Format Sound"
-Click OK
------------------------------
Hope this can help untill there is a Undo button...

X-Fixer · 13th August 2002, 06:52

ChongMan, can you read?

UltraZelda64 · 1st September 2002, 08:02

That would be cool... it'd be something like "Restore Previous Playlist" in case you accidentally open a new file and lose the previous playlist, or "Undo Last Playlist Edit" for small mistakes, like moving tracks or removing a file. Something like that. Sounds useful... I don't know how many times I've accidentally lost my playlist info trying to add a song, double-clicking in Windows, and boom - it's gone. I hope something like this happens in Winamp3... 'cause as its release approached, I've been using it more and more... and now it's pretty much my default player.

X-Fixer · 1st September 2002, 11:31

UltraZelda64, so you can't read too?

UltraZelda64 · 2nd September 2002, 05:24

Oh well, sorry if it's already been said, but I'm not gonna read through a whole page of replies. I have other things to do. Not just post at these forums all day. Damn... people on message boards do nothing but bitch.

X-Fixer · 3rd September 2002, 03:49

if you do not have time, do not make posts

but, I've actually ment that, if you'd read the thread, you'd know how to "restore previous playlist in case you accidentally open a new file".

UltraZelda64 · 8th September 2002, 02:23

"if you do not have time, do not make posts"

Yep, my post count proves that I rarely make a post/reply anyway. So at least I'm not constantly, mindlessly spamming all the time...

19th April 2002, 10:45	#10
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	There's a reference to it in The Official Winamp 2x Bug List Misc glitches: #1. (wishlist) "New playlist" command needs extra "save" confirmation - you can accidentially delete whole playlist without any warning. An undo option would also be pretty neat. But it should really be in the wishlist because it's not a bug, it's a missing feature. Naturally, an UNDO button can't be added to the main GUI because this would then make all skins incompatible. But it could be added to the main menu ?! Though it'd be much easier to just make a pop-up message appear, prompting to save current playlist first. Playlist -\|- Twitter

19th April 2002, 14:55	#12
DJ Egg Techorator Winamp & Shoutcast Team Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 35,894	That's not what I said my friend. I said: an "Undo" command in Winamp's main menu (then yes, naturally the well known hotkey would also work too). The pop-up confirmation message was Peter's suggestion from Official Buglist. This would be for prompting if you want to save the current playlist before wiping it (List button -> New). I know, it doesn't really have much connection with "Undo" (I never said it did). But... like the guys above said, none of it is ever likely to happen anyway Besides all that, Ctrl+Z is already used by playlist (start of list hotkey) Playlist -\|- Twitter

13th August 2002, 06:42	#22
ChongMan Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2	Well, this happen to me a lot too I have like over 200 .mp3 on my list and my .mp3 are everywhere in my HD(Hard Drive) when i have new .mp3 I'll just add them in and forgot to save it.. Something I like the song so much and can't wait to listen to it and I'll open it and all my Winamp song are gone and I got very piss at it cuz it will take me a long time to add them back in one by one after this happen a lot of time. Got me very piss I'll change my .mp3 sopport using MS Windows Media Player 6.4 to view my .mp3(s) so when I just want to open a new .mp3 I open it with WMP 6.4. Now need to worry about my list no more.. To View .mp3 using Windows Media Play 6.4: -Open WMP 6.4 -Go to View ---> Options ----> Formats -Under Available formats CHUCK "MP3 Format Sound" -Click OK ------------------------------ Hope this can help untill there is a Undo button...

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15th April 2002, 14:44	#1
GiladB Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 3	Undo option for playlist Why don't add and Undo option for the playlist. Lets say that last time you used winamp you didn't save the playlist of some great songs in your huge mp3 libary, you closed winamp and do something else. next you accidently dubel click a mp3 file and the playlist been clean. Ain't that a bitch! Now imagin you can undo that by clicking "List Option" --> "Undo"

15th April 2002, 16:35	#2
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	Sawg, why it's still not in the official wishlist?

15th April 2002, 16:38	#3
Yonkey Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 20	I like the idea of the undo. But don't limit it to just undoing playlists, can you also make it undo the last action performed that changed the order of the playlist. For example, if a file is removed from the playlist, the undo will restore that file to the correct position. The undo should work with adding files, reordering files, new playlists, loading playlists and opening playlists (like what GiladB said). It doesn't have to have unlimited levels of undo or anything like that, just the last action. Oh, and if you make an undo, make a redo too!

15th April 2002, 18:39	#4
GiladB Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 3	Well that what i mean, but my english is not so good, so that what i could write. (i'm from israel, ME) Who can i know if the winamp team will accept this idea? who can give me an officl answer about that, in the fourm?

17th April 2002, 17:45	#7
GiladB Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Israel Posts: 3	well Sawg 2.0, Is there an option to undo last change in the playlist? if there isn't, there shold be. Are you a paying employ of nullsoft? if you do, you shold be better, and to give us (forum users) more help. P.s i did read the documention, and i find nothing in there. if there something there can you please show me.

17th April 2002, 20:19	#8
Sawg Guest Posts: n/a	>> Is there an option to undo last change in the playlist? No >> Are you a paying employ of nullsoft? No

19th April 2002, 12:59	#11
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	Egg, all of us know what UNDO is. It's not an extra confirmation or pop-up message, it's a feature that reverts your last action (ANY) when you press Alt-Baskspace (or CTRL-Z for newbies). Though I personally do not need undo in playlist editor

19th April 2002, 17:25	#13
Yonkey Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 20	As for the skin compatibility, who said the undo had to be a button? Just add an option to the right click menu in the playlist editor or make it a hot-key shortcut.

19th April 2002, 17:34	#14
peter ist death Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 3,704	i bitched about it ages ago, still no effect. i'm making this sticky.

2nd June 2002, 14:10	#16
Janssen Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 5	I would just.... love this feature.....

29th July 2002, 09:52	#19
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	To get such effect you can get Winamp Profiler and enable "play as enqueued".

31st July 2002, 18:07	#20
eliansays Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 3	great!!!

1st August 2002, 04:13	#21
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	You are welcome. But why did you post twice ? Though now I see that I haven't actually read the very first post (I've just seen the UNDO word), because "protect playlist" in Winamp Profiler is exactly what he is talking about (well, at least it's very close).

13th August 2002, 06:52	#23
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	ChongMan, can you read?

1st September 2002, 08:02	#24
UltraZelda64 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alliance, Ohio Posts: 390	That would be cool... it'd be something like "Restore Previous Playlist" in case you accidentally open a new file and lose the previous playlist, or "Undo Last Playlist Edit" for small mistakes, like moving tracks or removing a file. Something like that. Sounds useful... I don't know how many times I've accidentally lost my playlist info trying to add a song, double-clicking in Windows, and boom - it's gone. I hope something like this happens in Winamp3... 'cause as its release approached, I've been using it more and more... and now it's pretty much my default player.

1st September 2002, 11:31	#25
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	UltraZelda64, so you can't read too?

2nd September 2002, 05:24	#26
UltraZelda64 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alliance, Ohio Posts: 390	Oh well, sorry if it's already been said, but I'm not gonna read through a whole page of replies. I have other things to do. Not just post at these forums all day. Damn... people on message boards do nothing but bitch.

3rd September 2002, 03:49	#27
X-Fixer Major Dude Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 543	if you do not have time, do not make posts but, I've actually ment that, if you'd read the thread, you'd know how to "restore previous playlist in case you accidentally open a new file".

8th September 2002, 02:23	#28
UltraZelda64 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Alliance, Ohio Posts: 390	"if you do not have time, do not make posts" Yep, my post count proves that I rarely make a post/reply anyway. So at least I'm not constantly, mindlessly spamming all the time...