New UI &/|| Seeing previous/next songs about hermes HOT 10 CLOSED

It's an interesting idea, but personally I would prefer Hermes to stay as minimal as it is now. Pandora doesn't allow you to play any previous songs, so I don't see much of an advantage of seeing any previous songs. Also, from the screenshot it seems to me that it doesn't show the next few songs, and I'm not even sure Pandora offers such a capability. Can you point me to some evidence that it can show the next few songs?

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You can see the next few songs (4 at most), and you can certainly keep past songs around. I'm not sure what the benefit of seeing future songs would be, but it has occurred to me that seeing past songs would be nice sometimes.

I've considered adding this so you can thumbs up past songs you forgot to, or if you want to remember the name of a past song you can.

On the flipside, however, I don't want to clutter up anything, and I've had a hard time thinking of where to put this history of
past songs. Basically, I don't think there's much use in showing future songs, but showing past songs seems like it would be useful. I'll leave this open and try to think of a good way to show these songs with the current interface.

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If there was a way to thumbs up past songs, I would find it pretty useful. One way I envision it working is like how there is a "drawer" of stations on the right side of the window, there could be a similar "drawer" for history on the left side, showing info and album art of previous songs.

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How does this look to you for a UI for seeing past songs?

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That could work. It's interesting.

You nailed exactly what I was thinking for the history use-case. I always forget to thumbs up before hand (or down).

As for the using future feature, when using pithos it allowed me to skip songs in advance, or rate them as well. Not sure if that's useful to everyone but I appreciate it.

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After looking at it for a bit, it needs to be a bit wider. It's kind of hard to read in my opinion.

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I was expecting something that is always visible, so that whenever I open a new window I can see it and be reminded to thumbs up/down a song. I don't know whether I prefer this less cluttered option to having it always visible.

Also, the history doesn't show songs that have been thumbs downed/skipped. I'm not sure if this is by design (in which case I'm not sure what the motivation behind this is) or if it's a bug. I also think it's much more intuitive to have a vertical list that scrolls downwards, rather than horizontally.

Finally, it would be nice if you could press Cmd-Z to undo an accidental change.

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I'll look into making things a bit larger, but I personally prefer the history to not always be visible.

It was by intention that only songs completely played were put in the history. I can see why it would be nice to have them all showing, though, so I think I'll add that in.

It's currently a bug that it's scrolling horizontally, things are supposed to be exclusively vertical.

I'll try to think of the cmd+z, although no guarantees on that one :)

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Sorry about the delay, let's try this again!

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I'm gonna close this for now, feel free to open it back up if you find problems

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