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Yes, i know this sounds contradictory to what markey said in his recent blog, but i felt the need to elaborate somewhat on his statement regarding the old-style playlist being gone. While yes, this is entirely true, and good riddance (as it says), this is mainly because it is far too inflexible. The new playlist is vastly superior in all ways, and i shall spend a few moments describing to the doubters just why this is so.

The most often mentioned dislike with the new playlist is, well, the new playlist - or to be more exact, the default layout used in the new playlist. In my original post of mockups of the new playlist layout, i failed to touch on the topic of the layouting system needed for it. This is really where the whole thing comes together and enables those who dislike the new fanciness to get back to using the old, 90s style playlist view.

A bit of graphics always helps with understanding such things, of course, so here you go - description of the essential parts of this below



What you can see in this mockup right at the bottom is a section reading "Available items for header". What this really means is that this is where you design the layout of your playlist. The header is what is shown in the playlist, and while the default set contains two rows of data and a piece of art spanning two rows, what is not so clear in the mockup is that you are able to add new rows and items, splitting the entire layout up in any way you want to. What this means is that if you really want to, you are able to put all the items on a single line, and the album art gets scaled accordingly.

This all depends on someone actually implementing this layouting system/manager

N.B.: This mockup also shows how sorting will eventually work in the new playlist