support playing out-of-library audio i.e. just files

[Pim Vullers]

It would be nice if beatbox could easily support playing files which are not included in the library. This could for example be done by adding a Filesystem entry (or This Computer entry under Devices) to the sidebar.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

We also need this in order to improve command line support.

I don't think we need a new sidebar entry though, since we could just add the file to the play queue.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Personally, I don't think BeatBox should deal with out-of-library media, but if this has to be implemented I would have to agree with Victor that it can be simply added to the queue item.

Victor, since we're past the point for feature freeze, I would suggest pushing this back to 1.1 instead of 1.0

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

Dan, then which app should be used for out-of-library media?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

In an ideal world, there should be no out-of-library media. But I would suggest Gloobus Preview as a generic previewing solution.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Removing milestone target since it's a new feature

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

BeatBox will NEVER have filesystem browser in it. If you want to browse your music files that way, you should simply use marlin with totem.

I think the best way to support out-of-library playback is to simply play the file and that is it. No queue, out-of-library list.