(June 10, 2012 at 3:28 pm)Darwinian Wrote: Edit: How would you envisage that working. At the moment I'm thinking that you make all your preferences with the file that's playing and then simply apply all those setting to all the other files in the same directory and/or playlist.
Disclaimer: While I am a pro software developer, I am not a UI guy, so am not current on best practices and such. These concepts may suck filthy bong water.
I thought of a few potential use cases for this sort of feature, which could be activated either from a file preferences dialog or a context menu (e.g. right click the file within your app, or perhaps by adding to the Explorer context menu):
1. Save a file's playback preferences to a Hypercube playback template that once saved could be applied to a file, multiple selected files, or all files in a directory. (perhaps implement this in such a way that changes to the template are inherited to all files using that template).
2. Copy the file's playback preferences, and allow pasting them into multiple selected files.
3. Apply the selected file's preferences to all files in the directory (with optional recursion).
4. Allow selecting one or more files and editing preferences attributes for all (similar to how iTunes does this for attributes).
