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Implementation plan (feel free to comment, vote for this feature, suggest alternatives):

1. Selection of multiple items will be possible in tree non-edit mode in the same way as it is currently in edit mode.
2. Pressing will activate all selected items and play them in external player (currently this works for single selected item). All playable descendants of unplayable selected items will be played.

It should be possible to limit each custom action to the specific file type(s).
For example, View/edit text file custom action makes sense only for the plain text (e.g. cue) files.

Currently storing file patterns is not implemented properly. Various pattern information can be lost because of this.
Default file patterns should be set in Preferences analogously to custom actions.

This action would allow navigating to the playlist item that corresponds to selected history item (if such corresponding item exists of course).

There is a Song Change Audacious plugin, which allows to run a command when Audacious reaches the end of the playlist. By appending ventool next command (if the command is not empty - insert ; before ventool next) one can achieve random playback without dubious -q audacious option. The biggest problem with current approach is that Audacious must be restarted often. Detached Audacious would be available as alternative player, so the old way would still be available as an option.

Implementing alternative Audacious support has another advantage: adding another external player support that can be switched to at runtime will be much easier after accompanying interface changes.

Implementation plan (feel free to comment, vote for this feature, suggest alternatives):
Insert/Backspace/Space applies to all selected items in playlist tree in edit mode. This will work in the same way as Preferences/"Filename patterns" (it is described in Venturous manual).

Feel free to suggest players, vote for them or even implement support for some player yourself.
Player must support minimal command line interface.
Essential features of external player:

1. Directories and files for playlist can be specified as command line arguments.
2. External player notifies Venturous when playback finishes (prints something to stdout or quits).
3. External player can be shut down from command line.

Files should be added in a separate thread.
A special dialog should be visible when files are being added. This dialog should display currently analyzed path, have Cancel button.

Implementation plan (feel free to comment, vote for this feature, suggest alternatives):

1. Tab "Custom actions" in preferences - contains a list of user-defined custom actions, which will be available in context menu. Triples <name, command, comment> can be added/edited/disabled/removed.
2. The same context menu is present both in playlist tree and history window.
3. All occurences of "%f" in command are substituted with selected item(s)' path(s).

Examples (will be present by default, but disabled):

• <"Open in file manager", "thunar %f", "Thunar must be installed">
• <"Move to music trash", "mv %f /Music/trash/", "/Music/trash directory must exist">
• <"Move to Trash", "trash-put %f", "trash-cli must be installed">

Implementation plan (feel free to comment and suggest alternatives):

1. Store playback history in plain text file "/history".
2. Tab "History" in preferences (the fourth tab).
3. Option in "History" preferences: "Maximum size" - determines maximum number of items in history (default: 100).
4. Menu "History" with actions "Export", "Import", "Clear".
5. History window is dockable (this implies that it can be hidden/shown/moved in the same way as toolbar, can be resized) and contains list of absolute item paths (the last played file - usually currently playing - is at the top of the list).
6. Activating (double-clicking or pressing ) item in history window starts playing it. Pressing Delete removes selected history items.
7. "Previous" action in Playback menu.
8. Option in "History" preferences: "Copy played from history item at the top" - allows copying manually repeated item from history at the history top (default: OFF).
9. Option in "History" preferences (enabled only if previous option is OFF): "Play next item from history if available" - allows repeating exact playback sequence after selecting some old item from history (default: OFF).
10. Option in "History" preferences: "Number of hidden directories in item path" - for example, if set to 3 and the path is "/home/username/Music/Bach/BWV 565.flac", then only "Bach/BWV 565.flac" will be displayed in history window (default: 3).
11. Option in "History" preferences: "Save history to disk immediately" - if checked, history will be saved after each update (new item played) (default: OFF).

Currently if user decides to manually edit Venturous.xml, it is necessary to restart Venturous in order for the changes to take effect; furthermore quitting should be done before editing is started.
So the current Venturous state can be inconvenient and a special loading-from-file action can be useful.

Implementation plan (feel free to comment, vote for this feature, suggest alternatives):
Activating (, but not double click!) tree items in edit mode will produce the same results as it does in non-edit mode.

Details:

• add Search action in the playlist and history context menus;
• search the whole playlist/history if no items are selected;
• it is possible to limit search to file/directory names only or perform a full-text search;
• full-text search is performed on the files of the user-specified file formats that are present in the selection area;
• search results - files or directories - can be opened in the appropriate application. This application is specified by the system mime-type configuration (QDesktopServices::openUrl).

Feel free to suggest languages and vote for them. Specify what should be translated: GUI, manual or both.
If this feature would become popular enough, I could prepare Venturous for transations. But since I know only Ukrainian, Russian and English, volunteers would be necessary to translate to other languages.