Bugzilla – Bug 1444
Browsing an artist's albums in player UI unnecessarily includes artist name
Last modified: 2008-09-15 14:37:04 UTC
On my SliMP3, likely due to to the new browse album behavior where the artist name is included, I'm also seeing the artist included in the album name even if we're already browsing by artist. For example: Browse Music -> Browse By Artist -> R.E.M. -> Document (R.E.M.), Murmur (R.E.M.), Automatic for the People (R.E.M.). I can understand the desire to include the artist name when browsing by album, in fact I applaud it, but it seems to be unnecessarily verbose on an already cramped display (I use large font on my SliMP3's). That said, given the tradeoff of either not having this feature at Browse By Albums or living with the extra artist info in browse by artist, I'd definitely go with including it both places because it's a great improvement.
simple fix would be to include artist in level zero of the hierarchy only.
I was thinking about that too. Something to consider is that if someone were to add Browse by Year to the player UI, then the albums/artists would not be at level zero (I think).
yup...but that's not a concern until someone does :) This is always how it works with a bug. it can be fixed now, or left until a larger rework fixes it as a side effect.
Created attachment 472 [details] add the artist only when browsing album list at top level simple patch as described in earlier comments.
Patch looks good. Check it in.
checked into trunk at change 3106
looks great kdf, marking fixed!
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