Web Interface

We’re looking at creating a new web interface in summer 2010. Here’s what our current interface does and some wishlist items for the new one.

Current Features

• Log in
• Search for songs by artist, album, title, or path
• See random songs
• Search for playlists, statistics, or history by voter ID
• See recently added, recently played, or global statistics
• Common result table for songs:
  • Sort by a column
  • Vote a random song from the table
  • Vote all songs from the table
  • Vote button for individual song
  • Links for artist and album to search for current value
• Queue
  • Vote/unvote songs
  • Move one song to the top of your votes
  • Clear your votes
• Select which player to use
• Playlists:
  • Create playlist, delete playlist
  • Add and remove songs from playlist
  • Enqueue all or ten random songs from playlist to queue
• Player control: start, stop, skip, change volume
• Admins can:
  • Skip any song
  • Clear votes for any user

Wishlist

Things that currently work but need improvement:

• Result table: should be able to show additional columns for things like history
• Result table: when sorted, voting all should vote in that order
• Playlists: reordering, overall creation/editing
• Queue: reordering your votes
• Multiple Players: better way to select where you are
• Login: in background, to avoid navigation away from current view

New things:

• Voter page, to show history, playlists, statistics
• Back/forward button support (free with some frameworks, like jQuery)
• Plugins
• Support less cooperative browsers (mobile browsers, where possible. IE8.)