Provide a way to delete projects from the Polyend Play directly.
What is the problem?
Deleting a project from the Play involves:
Removing the SD card
Finding the SD card USB-A adapter (bundled with the Play)
Finding a computer
Possibly finding a USB-A to USB-C adapter if you own any recent Mac
Deleting the project from the SD card on the computer
Putting the SD card back in the Play
Since deleting a single project is so tedious, one may find themselves wanting to delete multiple projects at the same time. Since the Play does not work without its SD card, deleting multiple projects will likely involve having to write the project names down so that one doesn’t accidentally delete the wrong projects.
Since the SD card is so thin, one might also want to avoid constantly removing and re-inserting it from/between various devices.
What do you want to achieve?
Simply delete projects from the Play.
Either:
from the File menu, through a new “Delete Project” entry (see terrible mockup below),
or any time we are looking at our list of projects (say, through “Open Project” or “Save Project”) by pressing the Delete key (Shift + Fill key combo), which is exactly how we can delete individual samples from our project when browsing its Sample Pool (see terrible mockup below).
Yes. Ridiculous that you cannot delete a project directly on the device. This needs to be in as soon as possible. The less you have to remove the SD card and manage it on a computer, the better.
well, it’s definitely strange that wishes like this should even exist. shouldn’t it be an expected feature on release, a year+ ago? it’s barely a «feature», right?
I love the Play+ and I love it being as self-contained as possible. The more time you spend with it the more unwieldy those projects get. Hope this gets implemented soon!
The fact that the Delete option isn’t already a member of the File menu is indeed baffling. That being said, this feature request seems to be the very definition of “low hanging fruit”.
It’s a feature that many have requested and everybody would like. Implemention involves one new entry in the existing File menu page (or just use the Shift Delete button combo) and a recursive delete loop using function calls (that I’ll bet are) already available in the existing file system library.
It would also save wear and tear on the uSD port!
Please give us this one. It’s so much easier than most other feature requests!
I recently thought “wouldn’t it be cool if the Play could load exported waves” so I tried it. I expected to be blocked loading the exported samples and was amazed to find this works. Kudos to Polyend for not limiting file access when loading samples!
This amazing capability opens up Play not only to layering sounds and creating chords but also layering effects like differing delay lengths, and getting 100% wet sounds which the Play normally does not allow for.
This capability of the Play and Play+ only makes it all that much more obvious that these machines desperately need a DELETE file/folder capability and for that matter the ability to rename samples in the Pool.
I have a project called Sampler where I can load in any samples I want, trim them, trim the pattern length and export the result. That rapidly ends up creating a total MESS of exported folders especially since the Play wants to create new folders for every iteration of EXPORT.
As noted by many of us, being able to delete files and folders is low hanging fruit that would make the Play’s so much easier to work with.
On top of that, the ability to rename is already in the Play, but renaming samples in the pool is not currently allowed. That would make this “resampling” capability all that much more useful if we could sample layers and not have a pool filled with files named “master” or “reverb”.
There is no reason we should have to constantly pull our SD cards just to delete and rename things. The Play is fully capable of this. The omission of DELETE is baffling.
PLEASE OPEN UP FILE OPERATIONS!!! It’s not even hard to implement as you have all the pieces already in place including a nicely designed keyboard for name input.
why i need to spend my vote for it 