> I've got some more information and the main reason to have > the movement level is to avoid scrolling menu element.
I think that it would be good to provide an example that is basic and relevant to the needs of classical music listeners. In practice, it is far more common for me to make selections until I have picked a single performance of a multi-movement and then play all the movements of that work in the list (in the right order.) If I do want to play a single movement, I select it from the next list and click play. I see absolutely no point in having another menu level below movement (or song. I have the movement name in the Track name or Song tag. I don't have a tag named "Movement".) It is useful to see some context about what you have already selected as you navigate down through the levels of menus. It would seem natural to put that context on the top line. The question of what you display while a music file is playing is nearly separate. I'd suggest that you use a separate example to illustrate your ideas about Movement vs. Song. erland;204521 Wrote: > > > Originally Posted by Listener > >> Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas, about as many string > >> quartets, 5 piano concerti, 1 violin concerto, 9 symphonies > >> and lots of other works. If you have a pretty complete > >> collection of Beethoven's major works, you are going to > >> be scrolling through a long list at the <Work> stage. > > Is there some way to divide these into some sort of sub genres, or is > the symphony number the only sub category that is reasonable ? I use a Sub-Genre tag to separate Orchestral works from Concerti and Chamber music. On a PC screen, that shortens the lists of works enough. On the 2 line SB screen, It might be better to have finer categories such as Sym. 1-15 Sym. 16-30 Sym. 31-60 Sym. 61-90 Sym. 91-104 for Haydn symphonies or PC 1-10 PC 11-19 PC 20-27 for Mozart Piano Concerti. If you provide support for using custom tags and menu structures thast can use them, the user can define his tags and menus to fit his needs. For Chopin's works, I put the type of work in the Work Name Field and the name of the individual work in the Track Name (or Song field.) It isn't perfect but it allows me to use the same menu structure as for multi-movement works. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35420 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
