From: Brook Johnson 
Date: Thu May 1, 2003  11:57:49  AM US/Pacific
Subject: Re: managing albums

My biggest complaint with iTunes is the lack of condensing playlists to albums.  When I used 
SoundJam a few years ago, playlists listed albums with triangles to expand them if needed.  In the 
slimp3 software, if you are browsing for music, you can add an album or open the album and add 
songs.  What I would like is this exact same format in the playlists.  Right now a playlist is a just a 
list of songs, but I would prefer a list of albums that could then be expanded if necessary.  I would 
think the code used to display the "playlists/albums/songs" frame could be used in the "current 
playlist" frame too.  Not only would it be easier to remove or reorder whole albums at a time in the 
current playlist, but my 800 song playlists could be listed on one page of 80 albums instead of 8 
pages of 100 songs.  I have been waiting for iTunes to do this for a few years, but if you would do 
it, I could almost dump iTunes.

As for the rescan speed, I am using the latest software.  It may have to do with my 300 mhz G3 and 
30 Gb of music, but duplicating the current list of files and using it until the rescan is complete 
would cure any lag.

Thanks for your response.  I love my slimp3 since I set it up last week.

Brook