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Comment R&R (Score 1) 138

My job is not one that's always stressful, but it's stressful sometimes. When I come home from a 12-hour day, I don't want to watch a dark prestige drama, I want to relax, maybe have a beer or a whiskey, and unwind.

Right now that's Voyager (which I've seen before). I can watch 10-15 minutes or a couple of episodes. I definitely use my phone while watching that, and put it down when something interesting is happening (sometimes for the whole episode).

When I watch something new and/or more serious (Watchmen, The Expanse, Chernobyl) phone goes away.

I suspect most people are using streaming/broadcast shows largely for relaxation. I know lots of people who basically watch The Office and Friends on Netflix on a loop to relax. Nothing wrong with also gaming/browsing/swiping on your phone while you're doing that. So yeah, let's just let people enjoy their media how they want and not wring our hands over this.

Comment A Good Thing (Score 5, Interesting) 292

This is good. A friend of mine committed suicide a little over a year ago and her Facebook page is the primary place that people talk about her, both right after the event and at various marker points. It's nice to check in on her page and see if anyone has posted anything new when I'm thinking about her.

Comment George Lucas? Really? (Score 1) 705

Wait, so we're still allowing George Lucas into the highest tier of sci-fi demigods? I was pretty sure he demoted himself down to 2nd tier, and that's granting him some charity between balancing the 1st trilogy, which he didn't get to make like he wanted, what with the surly actors and limited special effects, and the 2nd, which he got to make EXACTLY like he wanted.

Comment Re:Coverflow Playlist - Or It's Songbird Equivalen (Score 1) 668

I'd appreciate something like that because I mostly prefer to listen to full albums, but I still have plenty of random single songs floating around in my library. I would love to be able to say I only want to see my albums.

Exactly it.

I have around 40 days worth of music. Most of that is albums, but some is also random tracks I've downloaded over the years. I want a playlist that is only complete albums.

Yes, I can manually put one together, but being able to make a smart playlist that auto updates would be nice.

Comment Coverflow Playlist - Or It's Songbird Equivalent (Score 1) 668

One feature I found missing when Apple bought Coverflow was the ability to create a properly filtered playlist where Coverflow is actually useful.

I see that Songbird has something similar to Coverflow, but here's my question: can one create a playlist that meets such criteria as

1.) all tracks are tagged with track numbers (1 of 12, etc).

2.) all tracks are part of an album with at least x tracks.

And the long shot...

3.) all tracks are part of albums where all tracks of the album are present, so that if each track says there are 12 tracks in the album, but there are only 11 tracks from that album in the collection, that album is excluded.

I really preferred Coverflow before it was integrated into iTunes. Much more useful as a stand alone app as you could filter using criteria 1 and 2 above.

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