MeFi Music favourites/add

April 20, 2007 12:18 PM

At MeFiMusic, adding individual songs from other users' playlists to ones' own, or otherwise favoriting tracks looks time consuming. How about 2.0/itunes/etc style 'starring' beside the trackname to add a filter-layer for favourite/playlisting?
posted by acro to MetaFilter Music at 12:18 PM (16 comments total)

-- I can't listen on the front MuFi page, since a flash player bug pauses the player when you go to another tab, so a way to browse/filter playlists would be great.
posted by acro at 12:23 PM on April 20, 2007

Independent of the track-management interface, there's a couple of workarounds you can use to dodge the tab-switching issue. IE seems to be unaffected (can't vouch for Safari or Opera), and even with FF you can crack a new window open and toss it up to a corner of your screen and just not cover the player up.
posted by cortex (staff) at 12:37 PM on April 20, 2007

The Flash author's site, on the bug...
posted by acro at 12:53 PM on April 20, 2007

Yes, this has been driving me crazy. I actually assumed it was a feature so that when your boss dropped in, you could just minimize the window and the music would stop. But yeah, a fix for this would be fantastic.
posted by buriednexttoyou at 3:59 PM on April 20, 2007

buriednexttoyou, that's pretty useful eh?
posted by snsranch at 4:19 PM on April 20, 2007

I should add "copy this to my playlist" links, yeah.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:44 PM on April 20, 2007

Yeah, and can we have the add to playlist links be all ajaxy and cool? I hate when I forget that it's not and click in the middle of the song, interrupting it. Maybe you can let users pick a default playlist, so those with multiple playlists can still use it this way.

Also, some kind of playlist (re)organization system would be nice, while we're making a pony list.
posted by kyleg at 7:17 PM on April 20, 2007

nice. Thanks mathowie!
posted by acro at 8:03 PM on April 20, 2007

(and thanks cortex) *starstruck fan
posted by acro at 8:53 PM on April 20, 2007

I was considering asking in my own thread, but since this one's up, I'll ask here. I've been wondering if it's possible to tally & display the number of listens/downloads a song has?
posted by Devils Rancher at 5:46 AM on April 21, 2007

I'm not sure it's even been tracked, except indirectly as lines in the as I understand it frequently recycled server logs.

But I'm vaguely against the idea, actually; it doesn't add any information that's useful to a poster or listner—favorites, comments, playlistings all provide positive feedback and visibility—and creeps toward something vaguely discomforting to me.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:11 AM on April 21, 2007

I think it would add information useful to the poster, anyway. I'd be curious to find out that something I'd posted had been downloaded 10,000 times, if indeed it had. Just a fleeting, ego-driven thought, though. (Kinda like flickr tracks the number of views-- it does cause people to behave in an ego-driven way, so it'd be a mixed blessing, I suppose.)
posted by Devils Rancher at 7:50 AM on April 21, 2007

-- I can't listen on the front MuFi page, since a flash player bug pauses the player when you go to another tab, so a way to browse/filter playlists would be great.

This does not appear to be a problem in Safari.
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:37 AM on April 21, 2007

Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Opera 9.02, but not IE 7.0.5730.11
posted by acro at 9:06 AM on April 21, 2007

I've been wondering if it's possible to tally & display the number of listens/downloads a song has?

Personally I think listens would hardly yield useful info, but I've always wondered about the downloads. If voting counts, I'd vote for showing the number of downloads, the listen count makes no difference to me.
posted by micayetoca at 9:32 AM on April 21, 2007

That sounds a bit rude, now that I saw it posted, I meant only to saw that I'm in favor of the download count.
posted by micayetoca at 9:38 AM on April 21, 2007