VLC for DJing: enqueue a song in the playlist?
Posted: 27 Jul 2009 20:00
Hi!
I am trying to switch from xmms/audacious to vlc. So far I've only encountered one real problem.
I like to load all of my music (eg. vlc ~/music). Then I want to scroll through the playlist window and enqueue songs in the order in which I want them played (or let my guests at a party do the same, jukebox-style). Under xmms, I select a song in the playlist and press "q", which adds that song to the queue (indicated by a little rectangle containing the number in the queue, which is decremented each time the playlist moves to the next song). The songs are still sorted however I chose so I can still find them quickly, but now I can control the play order independently of the display order. If the queue is empty, song selection reverts to sorted/random/etc.
The songs look like they can be dragged and dropped. But that fails for two reasons. First, if I've requested alphabetical sorting and I drag one, should it be moved, breaking the sort request that I made? Second, dragging an item through a list of 500 songs looking for the one that's currently playing so I can drop the next song in after that really sucks.
I can't find this in the docs--I've found how to do it via commandline, but this is one case in which I don't want to use the commandline. I've found a few slightly related posts in the fora, but not this particular question. The wiki doesn't address it at all AFAICT--I'm probably blind.
Please tell me I can do this!? Or should I post it under "feature requests"?
Many thanks!!
I am trying to switch from xmms/audacious to vlc. So far I've only encountered one real problem.
I like to load all of my music (eg. vlc ~/music). Then I want to scroll through the playlist window and enqueue songs in the order in which I want them played (or let my guests at a party do the same, jukebox-style). Under xmms, I select a song in the playlist and press "q", which adds that song to the queue (indicated by a little rectangle containing the number in the queue, which is decremented each time the playlist moves to the next song). The songs are still sorted however I chose so I can still find them quickly, but now I can control the play order independently of the display order. If the queue is empty, song selection reverts to sorted/random/etc.
The songs look like they can be dragged and dropped. But that fails for two reasons. First, if I've requested alphabetical sorting and I drag one, should it be moved, breaking the sort request that I made? Second, dragging an item through a list of 500 songs looking for the one that's currently playing so I can drop the next song in after that really sucks.
I can't find this in the docs--I've found how to do it via commandline, but this is one case in which I don't want to use the commandline. I've found a few slightly related posts in the fora, but not this particular question. The wiki doesn't address it at all AFAICT--I'm probably blind.
Please tell me I can do this!? Or should I post it under "feature requests"?
Many thanks!!