favoriting, etc, kills my song buzz

December 15, 2006 10:57 AM

music.metafilter.com -- favoriting, etc, kills my song buzz, man.
posted by Ogre Lawless to Feature Requests at 10:57 AM (21 comments total)

Its quixotic: to indicate the song that is playing is one of my favorites, I must therefore STOP LISTENING TO IT, MY FAVORITE MUSIC given the default navigation. Is there a way around this that I am unaware of that doesn't involve navigating the mess myself? One would think the control rules for links everywhere might help, but is that the case?

I'm happy and all to shift-click, but woe be me the times I forget :( Generally the subject harshes my listening buzz as I can pretty much tell if I'm going to like it enough to keep at some point before the song hits its last chords.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 10:57 AM on December 15, 2006

If you play the song from the main page, and then decide to favorite it, you can right click on the "X comments" and click "Open in new window" or "Open in new tab", and from there click the fav link.
posted by delmoi at 10:59 AM on December 15, 2006

also, in IE you can just click "Ctrl+N" to open a new browser window, and then favorite in that one. In firefox you'll need to open a new browser window and then drag, or copy and past the URL and then favorite.
posted by delmoi at 11:00 AM on December 15, 2006

also, in IE you can just click "Ctrl+N" to open a new browser window, and then favorite in that one. In firefox you'll need to open a new browser window and then drag, or copy and past the URL and then favorite.

AUGH NO. Middle or ctrl click on the permalink for a new tab, bookmark that, close. *grumble* Frickin' IE users.
posted by loquacious at 11:04 AM on December 15, 2006

Middle-clicking generally opens a new tab (you may need to set this up). You can then navigate to that tab using either the mouse or ctrl-pgdn. Be sure to remember what tab the song was playing in, though; you wouldn't want to get lost in your own browser!
posted by Eideteker at 11:53 AM on December 15, 2006

AUGH NO.

Yeah, I'm some kind of idiot. Sorry, delmoi, I just now noticed you recommended tabs in your first post.
posted by loquacious at 12:10 PM on December 15, 2006

I second the request. Sure there are workarounds, but having it done in place on the page would be best. Youtube has a bit of AJAXiness that allows you to add something to favorites or a playlist without navagating away from the page, so how hard can it be?
posted by winston at 1:04 PM on December 15, 2006

quixotic?
posted by found missing at 1:41 PM on December 15, 2006

Middle click? Which one is middle click? (no really, I hate right click choose from menu)

Should I mention my (two button) mouse is so crappy it doesn't even have a wheel?
posted by shelleycat at 2:00 PM on December 15, 2006

AUGH NO. Middle or ctrl click on the permalink for a new tab, bookmark that, close. *grumble* Frickin' IE users.

The problem is that there is no permalink on the comments page so you can only open a new from the main listing.
posted by delmoi at 2:54 PM on December 15, 2006

shelley: You can hold ctrl while you click, but sheesh, I feel your pain (im in ur hed, feelin ur pain). Take heart; when your faithful and trusty IBM beige, 23 pound brick-mouse dies, the wheeled kind are like $10-15 at Staples.

Then again, maybe it will never die. We can't all be such hardcore mousers as to go through a new one a few times a decade. And I don't even slam it around when it has gunk in it, like my old boss did. "Why isn't it working?" "Maybe because you slam it like a belated abortion every time a speck of dust inhibits the mechanism, rather than just keeping it clean like a sane person."

Oh man, speaking of ADHD, "Happy Belated Abortion!" is my new holiday card idea. No one steal that! I am hereby patenting it, in the Eyes of the Internet.
posted by Eideteker at 2:56 PM on December 15, 2006

Eventually it'll be ajaxy so you don't have to navigate away.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 3:03 PM on December 15, 2006 [1 favorite]

I've been wondering why it isn't ajaxy - seems the perfect place for some judicious use thereof. Glad to hear it's coming.
posted by dmd at 6:28 PM on December 15, 2006

I had a lovely mouse but after five years it died. Can't really complain, it was worked hard. And since I'm fussy and have tendonitis problems in my hands I haven't been able to find a good new one. No Staples here and Dick Smith and Noel Leemings all sell the same shit, so I'm using an old Dell mouse someone got with a computer sometime (I built mine, no Dell crap here).

Control click isn't any better than right click because I have to move my arm over to the keyboard. Yes that's an issue (I have other OOS problems too). So the magical middle click sounds wonderful, but I still don't know what it is.
posted by shelleycat at 10:42 PM on December 15, 2006

So the magical middle click sounds wonderful, but I still don't know what it is.

Pushing the middle button on a three-button mouse.
posted by winston at 11:42 PM on December 15, 2006

(do you need someone to mail you a mouse from Staples?)
posted by winston at 11:50 PM on December 15, 2006

all the way to New Zealand, winston?

But what was the old mouse, shelley? I'm sure you can order it or a similar one online from somewhere.
posted by jacalata at 1:57 AM on December 16, 2006

Shellycat: if it's a modern wheel mouse, the wheel is usually the middle (third) button. You just click down on the wheel instead of rolling it.
posted by loquacious at 2:05 AM on December 16, 2006

all the way to New Zealand, winston?

Well, that would be the point, wouldn't it? I still only have to bring it to the mailbox.
posted by winston at 4:55 AM on December 16, 2006

Ah, I forgot the wheel also clicks. Brilliant! When I get a new mouse I'll try it out.

As I said, I'm very fussy (for reasons outside my control). The old mouse is no longer available and any new mouse is going to need careful choosing. I've done a bit of looking through the askme archives and will go shopping more seriously after Christmas. You'll know how successful I am by the appearance or not of an early-Jan askme looking for mouse advice. In the meantime I'm just popping anti-inflammatories and swearing at the crapy Dell mouse.

I'm also looking forward to the new Ajaxyness of music.
posted by shelleycat at 2:12 PM on December 16, 2006

curses. I was THIS close to finishing a Bookmarklet that would allow this to work, and the AJAX request failed; metafilter.com and music.metafilter.com aren't the same domain, and since the favoriting script resides on metafilter.com, it considers it cross-site, and throws all manner of exceptions.

here's a link to the code, if anyone wants to play with it.
posted by potch at 11:32 PM on December 16, 2006