Feature #76: Option to delete files physically from playlist - Audacious - Redmine

Feature #76

Option to delete files physically from playlist

Added by lucas de michiel about 12 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Major

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Category:

Target version:

3.5

Start date:

February 24, 2012

Due date:

% Done:

100%

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Affects version:

Description

An Option to delete files physically from playlist would be just great !,

it's very usefull for example when you are cleaning a folder with 5000 mp3's
and you want to delete those that you dislike (for any reason). I hear many people that
would like to have this, so its a good idea, and many players allready have it, so its not
a bad idea.

Greetings from Argentina, Lucas.

History

#1 Updated by Conde Mor over 11 years ago

I agree with you Lucas. I sometimes run Wine + WinAmp to get to do this. However, WinAmp have no a "global hotkey" to do this (apart from typicall "Play", "Pause", etc). Usually I NEED to delete a song inmediately while I'm listening it, but don't like the need to put WinAmp in foregrund to do this.

So, I bet for this functionality in Audacious.

Hasta luego, Lucas!!

#2 Updated by Alex T over 11 years ago

Agreed. Very useful option. I always used it in Aimp while worked on Windows.
IMO, the context menu item should sit under sub-menu to avoid accidentally deletion of a file.

#3 Updated by Marcin Kocur about 11 years ago

#4 Updated by Burrito Bazooka about 11 years ago

Is anyone interested in implementing this? I would switch back to Audacious from Banshee if this feature was present.

#5 Updated by Burrito Bazooka about 11 years ago

Burrito Bazooka wrote:

Is anyone interested in implementing this? I would switch back to Audacious from Banshee if this feature was present.

Also, the ability to copy files (not just playlist entries) is pretty important...

#6 Updated by John Lindgren about 11 years ago

Copying and deleting files are good features for a file manager (or music manager) to have. Audacious is not intended to be either of those things.

#7 Updated by Burrito Bazooka about 11 years ago

I'm inclined to disagree (by matter of opinion, however) - the vast majority of music players I have used in the past have had a very basic capability of performing delete functions on the files they are using. To me, a music player is not fulfilled without these basic capabilities...

If core devs are not willing to implement this, maybe there is someone who would like to write this in the form of a script?