allow selection of different playlist to be associated with star icon

[Alex Peters]

As MPD may be used in an environment shared by multiple people, it makes sense for clients to allow "favourites" to be read from/written to a specific playlist.

While it is possible in GMPC to assign the currently playing song to a specific playlist by right-clicking the star icon, left-clicking the star icon always modifies the playlist named "Favorites" and the star is only "illuminated" for the next playing song if that song appears in the global "Favorites" playlist.

This behaviour results in GMPC's "Favorites" functionality being unusable in a shared environment, as multiple GMPC users corrupt each other's favourites.

For my GMPC installation I would prefer to nominate, e.g., "Alex's Favourites" to be the playlist on which the star icon operates. Other GMPC users connecting to the same MPD instance would also nominate their own "starred" playlist. This would prevent the scenario described above.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gmpc 11.8.16-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 23 12:06:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: gmpc
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-06 (47 days ago)

[Alex Peters (alex-peters)]

I've reported this issue upstream:
http://bugs.musicpd.org/view.php?id=3913

[Alex Peters (alex-peters)]

Oops, wrong link. This one:
http://bugs.musicpd.org/view.php?id=3917