erland;619528 Wrote: > I think I'd prefer to change sorting through a context menu.
For players, that's what I suggested above. But I see no reason to change the method in the web UI. > The question is just if it should be set: > - Per user (like the web interface) > - Per player (like the SqueezePlay implementation) > - Per library (global setting for SBS installation) > - Per interface (like it's currently handled with separate setting for > SqueezePlay and web) Per player in SP and ip3k, per user in the web UI. These are roughly equivalent and the most flexible. What's doesn't make any sense is the current SP implementation of not applying the sort order to anything but browse albums. > I'm not sure what's most logical, I just know that I rarely change the > sorting on SqueezePlay because it's too hard to access and I've > sometimes missed the possibility to set it in the IP3K interface. Exactly. > In the web interface I sometimes change the setting but the only > settings that's useful in a large library IMHO is "Artist, Year, Album" > and "Artist, Album", the reason is that these are the only settings that > makes the alpha bar select the first letter of the artist name. Check out the implementation now. The same alphapagebar treatment is now given to browsing by genres (if you have that many genres) and by -years-. The one by years may need a little work - two digits would be sufficient and would halve the size of the bar. > I usually know the artist name and I usually don't know the exact album > name, so the alpha bar gets pretty useless if it's sorted by "Album" > and it gets even more useless if you sort by one of the other options > that just gives a "1 2 3... 8" alpha bar. True, the alternative sort orders work better where the interface isn't paged. Sorting by album name works better when you have a long, scrollable list, as in the ip3k and SP UIs, or in the web UI where you have just one page of browse results, as when viewing a single artist's albums. -- JJZolx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85895 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
