Add import multi playlist options to "Playlists" and "Crates" sidebar header.

[Falk]

At the moment an existing playlist (e.g. an .m3u file) can only be imported into Mixxx by creating a new playlist followed by 'Import playlist' (right mouse click onto new playlist) for EACH playlist.
Instead it would be much better to right mouse click onto Mixxx Explorer's 'Playlist' folder by the option 'Load Playlists'.
Now existing playlists should be (multi-)selected to load them directly into MIXX explorer's Playlist folder.

[Dustin Cotton (dustin-cotton)]

This is a feature request which should be indicated using a blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu). This is not a bug.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Thanks for taking the time to file a bug, Falk.

@Dustin: We (the Mixxx team) use wishlist bugs to track things like this -- re-targeting all of these against the Mixxx project instead of the Mixxx package.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Thank you Falk, for reporting this bug.
The first part is clear and valid.

Can you please file a separate one for the "Mixxx file explorer" part at https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+filebug and explain it a little longer, e.g. the steps what should happen when.
I don't know how it should work yet.

[joergsorge (uexplorer)]

It there be nice, if the right-click-menu on Playlist in the Library-Explorer provide the option "Import existing Playlist" an then mixxx creates an import of this existing external playlist as new mixxx playlist.

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

I'm running a 2.1 nightly right now and the absence of a right-click import option is extremely conspicuous. Just seems like an obvious workflow.

Bump?

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

Joan, just subscribed you to this. Since you're currently doing work on the sidebars and library I thought you might consider it.

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

"Now existing playlists should be (multi-)selected to load them directly into MIXX explorer's Playlist folder."

This part seems like an entirely different bug/function maybe having to do with some kind of hook for external file explorers or something.

What I'm talking about specifically and what it seems the main report was about was the absence of ability to right click on Playlists or Crates and immediately get the "import" menu/option which will result then in a new playlist entry. As things are now, a user has to first create a blank playlist to import a preexisting one, which would only be useful for combining several playlists into one. I'm guessing combination isn't the workflow most people employ for playlists.

[Joan (jmigual)]

Ok, I have made the changes here is the pull request:

https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/929

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

Hold the phone!!!

Re-re-re-reading the original report, it looks like something here has been missed.

"...would be much better to right mouse click onto Mixxx Explorer's 'Playlist' folder by the option 'Load Playlists'. Now existing playlists should be (multi-)selected to load them directly into MIXX explorer's Playlist folder."

I realized this very likely meant the explorer which pops up to select a playlist should be able to select multiple playlists - and import them as multiple playlists, presumably named based on the names of the playlist files respectively.

Obviously this was a bit of a multi-bug and could have been clearer, but the bug as it stands still hasn't been fixed.

In other words, comment #7 (which I made) was wrong (sorry) and the multi-select was meant as a continuation of the import process.

Anyone disagree? I know the wording was a bit confusing but I really think this is the case.

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

Sorry, forgot to also say that I tested the current fix (not including the issue in the above comment of course) and it works wonderfully, and great work.

^_^ !!

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Incomplete means we need additional informations from the reporter.
In this case we can reset it to in progress.
I will also update the bug title.

[RAWRR (rawrr)]

Okay, thank you.

[Joan (jmigual)]

Here is the new pull request https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/pull/945

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6872