Bugzilla – Bug 392
[Feature Request] browse by album enhancement
Last modified: 2011-11-06 23:23:03 UTC
When browsing by album, would it be possible to have the option to display the album and artist name on the two lines of the player instead of # of total # and the album name? In the case of a compilation album, the artist line could say "compilation" or "many." Thanks, Julius
What do you think, Kevin?
it can be done, much the same as the YEAR display. this time, perhaps as a player setting. Of course, using it will be a big performance hit just like showing the year is. I didn't create any new caches in order to not create larger memory footprints for those who wont ever use the feature.
currently, there is no information that can tie the album to a 'many', 'various' or 'compilation' without the tag stating such. Best you would get right now, is the tag info from the first song on the album. Confusing at best if there are various artists. This might be best left for a task post-SQL when we can tie META info to the album name.
This would greatly improve "Browse Albums", especially if one has a significant number of orphan tracks (what the heck is "Seminole Wind"?). When this gets done, please add it to the web UI.
One more thing - it would be nice to have some way to specify how the name should appear in the web UI, either "Artist - Album" or "Album - Artist". The first would be especially nice if it could be used to drive the display order for "Browse by Artwork"! I've always stored my LPs/CDs by artist (and by order of release within artist), not by album title, so this seems like the most natural approach to me. Then if there were a straightforward way to use artist's last names, when applicable, as the primary sort field...
This is actually done as far as player UI (as per this bug report) using Michael Hergers MusicInfo Screensaver. Presenting this to the web UI as a configurable option would seem to require yet another InforFormat-type setting. This is a section of code I'd rather not touch, so I'm bouncing this back to Dean for an architectural decision as to how an option like this could be handled. other suggestions welcome.
6.0.2 and 6.1 now include an option for show year with albums and show artist with albums for the web UI. Michael Herger's MusicInfoSCR plugin solves the initial request. I'm tempted to mark this one as fixed.
Moving bugs that won't be immediately fixed in 6.1 release. Please review and update if this is an error or if this bug has already been fixed. Thanks.
Routine bug db maintenance; removing old versions which cause confusion. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Dean doesn't work here any more :)
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