Playlists
New features coming in Syncopation
Without a doubt, the ability to support playlists
has been the most requested feature that I've heard by email and in comments on
download sites. Honestly, this didn't come as too much of a surprise to me. When
I sync to my iPod, I have a set of specific playlists that I synchronize. I
like this feature, and I can also see how much more powerful and useful
Syncopation would be with this
feature.
In fact, there are a few
people I've heard from for whom it is a necessity. If you have a 60GB music
collection on your Power Mac and an iBook with a 40GB drive, it's pretty clear
that you're not going to sync the whole
library.
Even so, I knew that there
were a lot of people for whom Syncopation would be useful without playlists, and
I wanted to get the product in the market and start getting some exposure and
some feedback.
Well you will be glad to
know that playlist support is coming. I've been busy coding that feature up
(plus some UI enhancements) when I haven't been busy with my "day job" and my
two-year old!
Playlist support has also
turned out to be every bit as big of a feature to implement as I imagined it
would be. It makes the issue of what is an addition or a deletion a bit less
clear when you are talking about an addition
to a
playlist instead of an addition to the
library. However, I've got a model going that I think people will find both
intuitive and powerful.
Back to the
coding!
Posted: Thu - August 3, 2006 at 11:55 PM