Allow to Analyzer one plalist only; sugestion:drag drop playlists

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Reported by: si-dedman
Date: 2013-07-04T04:37:45Z
Status: Fix Released
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1197634

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Hi all. New to Mixxx so - perhaps wrongly - imported all my music in maually (i.e. pointed the library at my music folder) and also have connected through rhythmbox, where I have 4 playlists. I was intending to analyze these but am dismayed to find the analyze tool only seems to work from its own pane, i.e. there's no obvious way to sub-select the playlist files from the entire library. Looks like my best option will be to wipe the library (hopefully easy) then connect through rhythmbox only? And hope that by doing so, nothing is yet in the library so if I copy the 4 playlist folders over again, they should be the only ones analyzer sees? Any tips appreciated.

As a suggestion for future releases, it would be really great to have drag&drop functionality, or right click, for analyzer, so you can dump whole playlists in.

[in the end I stayed up late and played all the tracks so it analysed them one by one as I listened to them. Point stands tho!]

v1.11.0 xubuntu13.04

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T06:26:51Z

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I can confirm that drag and drop is not possible with the analyzer View.
But the fix will be a little complicated because the Analyzer View is only a filter to the Mixxx Library.
So a drop to the Analyzer would result in a drop to the library.

Rhythmbox tracks are not imported to the library by default. So they cannot be a analyzed.
You can Import your RB tracks with a right click to the RB playlist -> "Import Playlist"
After that all new tracks will appear at the Analyzer View as well.

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Commented by: kain88-de
Date: 2013-07-04T07:21:07Z

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The Fix should be quite easy. Just overwrite the drog'n'drop function from LibraryFeature in preparefeature.  When you add songs to the library you can also get back a QSet<int> for the ids and then you just need to call preparefeature::analyzseTrack(ids). I should have time in the evening to make a fix

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T08:37:46Z

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I have just notice, that you can drop Rhythmbox tracks to the library, but they did not appear. But when you drop them on a Deck, they appear also in the library and in the Analyze view.

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Commented by: kain88-de
Date: 2013-07-04T08:59:44Z

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Can you open a seperate bug Tod track this

Daniel Schürmann <email address hidden> wrote:

I have just notice, that you can drop Rhythmbox tracks to the library,
but they did not appear. But when you drop them on a Deck, they appear
also in the library and in the Analyze view.

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Title:
Analyzer/Analyze bug/suggestion: drag drop playlists

Status in Mixxx:
Confirmed

Bug description:
Hi all. New to Mixxx so - perhaps wrongly - imported all my music in
maually (i.e. pointed the library at my music folder) and also have
connected through rhythmbox, where I have 4 playlists. I was intending
to analyze these but am dismayed to find the analyze tool only seems
to work from its own pane, i.e. there's no obvious way to sub-select
the playlist files from the entire library. Looks like my best option
will be to wipe the library (hopefully easy) then connect through
rhythmbox only? And hope that by doing so, nothing is yet in the
library so if I copy the 4 playlist folders over again, they should be
the only ones analyzer sees? Any tips appreciated.

As a suggestion for future releases, it would be really great to have
drag&drop functionality, or right click, for analyzer, so you can dump
whole playlists in.

[in the end I stayed up late and played all the tracks so it analysed
them one by one as I listened to them. Point stands tho!]

v1.11.0 xubuntu13.04

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T09:26:05Z

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Here it is: Bug #⁠1197711

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Commented by: si-dedman
Date: 2013-07-04T12:05:03Z

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Hi lads.
I've already got the playlists in the Mixxx library as i've imported the with right-click, so now they're Mixxx playlists, really.
A (half formed) thought of how this could potentially be done: a way to filter the full list analyser displays by playlist status... not necessarily a simple solution tho because tracks can exist in multiple playlists so how would you display it? A new column generated for each playlist (so each column's data is simple presence/absence)?
Feel free to ignore me!! :)

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T12:45:48Z

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Your use case is to analyze a specific play-list, without a need to analyze the whole library. Right?

So we need something like a drop down box "Select" where you can select tracks that are member to a specific play list or crate.
Or we need to rewrite the Analyzer that it acts like a Auto-DJ queue for the Analyzer.

@si: Since this is different from the Issue Max wants to fix, please file a new bug. Thank you!

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Commented by: si-dedman
Date: 2013-07-04T20:34:08Z

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Hi Daniel,
No trying to be difficult here, but I'm still talking about the original issue - drag-drop playlists into analyser or a better solution to analysing (not rhythmbox) playlists. So I COULD start a new bug but it'd pretty much be the same title! :)

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T21:06:53Z

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If no solution of #⁠7 fits, lets first clarify the uderlying demand of this isse.
It is still not clear to me why do you wan't to drop tracks to the Anallyzer view?

The Analzer view is exactly the same view than the Library view with addition filters.
So if we enable droping tracks to analyzer view and you do this from a Mixxx playlist it will have no effect, because the track are already in the library.

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Commented by: si-dedman
Date: 2013-07-04T21:32:12Z

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I don't necessarily need to "drop" them.
The background: I added my whole library into Mixxx, ~38000 tracks. Mostly not dance, so not useful but I figure, this way everything's there.
Then I connected to rhythmbox (should have done ONLY that, TBH) and copied the playlists I wanted into Mixxx.
Then I wanted to analyse the tracks in those playlists.
But I can't think of a simple, quick and intuitive way to find those tracks.

Obviously I could select a playlist, remember a track, go to analyser view, search for it, select it, analyse it, repeat, but, well, you know that would suck.
So I figured the best way would be to be able to drop playlists onto the analyser to have them queued up to be analysed, but this doesn't work (my assumption would be that dropping them onto the analyser would mean "queue up only these tracks in the analyser window" rather than "add these to library" since they're necessarily already in the library.
But equally, if there was something in the analyser view where I could do it, that would make more sense. Maybe a toggle between tracks and playlists? So it would switch to a list of your playlists, and you could right-click analyse whole playlists, OR double click a playlist and it would open only those track in the analyser window so you could subselect?

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-07-04T22:39:48Z

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Thank you Si, I got you!
This is defnetly a valid request, but I what is the best solution.
Maybe an additional playlist filter is best idea.

I will rename the bug.

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Commented by: kain88-de
Date: 2013-07-07T10:07:58Z

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#37

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Issue closed with status Fix Released.