Bugzilla – Bug 6657
"All albums" menu item missing - has been replaced by extraneous "Play All"
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:24:45 UTC
The All Albums menu item is missing off the Jive menu. E.g In the web gui it is possible to select a Genre and then chose an "All Albums" menu item to view all albums tagged with the chosen genre. Very useful. This does not exist in the Jive menu and appears to have been replaced by "Play All". Play All seems a bit unnecessary as you can Play All in the previous screen (i.e Genre screen) by selecting a genre and hitting the play button.
Thought I should add a bit more in case it was not realised just how inconvenient the lack of the "Genre > All Albums" menu can be. Even with the new improved list scrolling, scrolling through a list of 1500 albums is very painful (and I'm afraid scrolling though artists is just unthinkable). As I listen mainly to albums It is much quicker to select a genre and then list the albums tagged with that genre. As I have a list of roughly 25 different genres I am presented with a list of albums an average of one twenty fifth of the size of the Browse Albums list. Scrolling through lists of this size is not frustrating. The Genres sub-menu as implemented in the web gui is much more usuable, although I can't see why a seperate sub-menu item of Various Artists is required. Why are the albums by Various Artists not included within the "All Albums" listing?
Yeah, this is bothering me too. The reason we added the Play All item was that new users were getting very lost and couldn't figure out how to play the items on the screen (yes, I know it seems silly, but we hear it over and over again) I propose that we add an "All Albums" choice at the bottom of the list (assuming that there is more than one album in question.) Ben: How hard would this be?
*** Bug 6817 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Reset priority
removing priorities from all 7.0.1 target bugs for re-prioritizing
fixed in trunk change 17957 jive trunk r2143, which fixes an endless request loop hit in certain rare situations, should also go with this fix. the "all albums" item appears just above the 'add to favorites' item at the bottom of any subgenre list.
*** Bug 7591 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Verified in 7.0.1 - 19422 Controller r2409 "all albums" doesn't appear when listSize == 1. I.E. there must be 2 or more albums for any given genre
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