Bugzilla – Bug 7253
UI Consistency Request
Last modified: 2012-02-29 15:45:18 UTC
When looking at the drill down for the two following parts, they both take me to the same place, but present 2 very different GUI's. Suggest we make them look the same Home > Artist > Album Home > Music Folder > Artist - Album
Created attachment 2938 [details] Home.Artists.Albums.JPG
Created attachment 2939 [details] Home.Music Folder.Artists.Albums.JPG
These are actually very different places. In your test case, I would guess that your folder structure is Artist\Album\Track, so it would appear similar. Music Folder Browsing is actually a completely different method for navigation and assumes nothing from tags; it uses folder structure and filenames. BrowseDB (Home->Artist->Album, et al) is a structured hierarchy based on the metadata stored in the database.
KDF is right, while they appear to be two different "places", one is a folder the other is an album. It may be possible to make them more consistent (i.e. show cover art if there is some in a folder, etc., but they will always be different...
We used to have the artwork, but unfortunately when structures are NOT the usual artist->album->track, then users were unhappy that unrelated pics came up. I'm staying away from looking up code this week, but off hand, I believe we now simply block coverart when in "tree" mode.
It's not unusual to have a mix of folders including some with no artist/album hierarchy (for example, a mix CD from a friend). In this case album art as well as the headers for artist/album/etc would be misleading at best. (In reply to comment #4) > It may be possible to make them more consistent > One could argue that this confusion would be avoided if they were made less consistent. Maybe the Browse Music Folder UI should look more like a traditional file browser.