Change default playback-order from "shuffle" to something more intuitive
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Shimmer for gmusicbrowser |
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Bug Description
Currently the default playback-order in gmusicbrowser is set to "shuffle". This is very surprising for new users, as we found out when collecting feedback from Xubuntu users lately.
So I propose to change that (it's very easy to do that via the gmbrc.default file) behavior to something that is more intuitive. The main reason being that the default visual sort-order (which is not necessarily in sync with the playback-order in gmusicbrowser!) isn't "shuffled" either, so in my opinion, the default playback-order should ideally match the default visual sort-order.
As to the proposed new playback-order: I've personally always worked with "path album disc track file" – adding "path" and "file(name)" as sort-criteria improves behavior for files with bad tags.
I'll add a patch to this bugreport shortly, it's basically three lines changed within gmbrc.default to set the new default playback-order – so the decision about this "bug" is actually more a "philosophical" one than a technical one.
This sounds sensible to me. Since gmb can have names for sort orders, please also consider naming default sort order simply "Default", if it isn't already.