Bugzilla – Bug 882
Title and Artist not displayed in "Browse Artwork"
Last modified: 2009-09-08 09:20:00 UTC
In "Browse Artwork" the title and artist are not displayed, you get "Play, Add to playlist", or the "Add to playlist next, Play, +, -" icons Would it be possible to have the title and artist displayed, as we are not all familiar with all our albums by sight and indeed are becoming less familiar thanks to Slimserver.
The album title is shown in the tooltips for most browsers. Having it also appear in text is not practical as this would make the layout very difficult to manage.
While we can sympatise with the developer's dilemma that this "...would make the layout very difficult to manage", from a users point of view not having the Artist/Title on the Browse by Artwork page makes the layout very difficult to use, verging on unuseable.
then you are free to not use it. this is hardly a developer dilemma. it is a design issue. this can always be accomplished by a custom skin, which any user can create for her or himself.
Created attachment 508 [details] artwork in new and album listings instead of adding complexit to the grid layout of 'browse artwork' add artwork to the browse album mode and new listings. This makes the artwork visible as the server defined thumbnail size, down the left side of the listing.
Marking items that aren't going to be addressed immediately in 6.1 as future. Please update if this is in error or the bug has already been addressed.
As it stands the "Browse Artwork" page is not usable, as Kevin suggests, I am not using it. I don't know all my albums by sight, I keep them all in three cardboard boxes on a shelf in my utility room and many of them went in there within a day or two of being received.
Created attachment 541 [details] capture of patched Browse_albums using the patch above, browse albums can look like this screencap. Ideally this would then replace browse_artwork completely. Eventually, if there is ever a more configurable titleFormat for browse, artwork could be included as one of the elems and
Created attachment 666 [details] partial screen cap in fishbone How about something like this? Just puts an extra row in the table under the artwork. The height of the row is fixed, so not sure how it would behave with really long album + artist name.
long names would start to wrap the images in funny ways. This is also dependant on the image size being significant enough. Smaller image size would break the layout with much shorter lines. really, this needs some way to force a grid layout. honestly, the way forward is to dump the grid layout completely and go with a top down list like all the rest. basically, this means a browse albums template that shows art.
Created attachment 727 [details] reworked fishbone browsedb_artwork.html looks like a bit of css (overflow:hidden) can be used to truncate the long text cases. This means its a choice between a layout that might show up staggered, vs having the artist/album/year cut off from view in some cases. Skins already have these options available, with no changes to the server code. I've attached a brwosedb_artwork.html for fishbone skin as an example.
oh, also requires this bit of code added to the slimserver.css: UL.artwork { text-align:center; list-style-type:none; padding: 0; margin-left: 0; } LI.artwork { float: left; padding:1px; list-style-type:none; }
I noticed that tooltips work showing the album name in the Browse Artwork view. That should probably include the artist name too.
They do. they follow the same show year and show artist prefs that are used for browse albums.
fixed in 6.5 builds as part of the recent css changes
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