jdk wrote: > So I've been playing with Muso today and I'm impressed. Generally I like > the style of presentation, and it makes browsing my collection more > interesting. However there are two factors that, for me, make it > difficult to use. So this post is basically a feature request. > > Firstly, would it be possible to add the option to browse albums by > Music Folder (one of the options offered in most LMS browsers, including > Logitech's own software)? > > The reason for this is that I have a large collection of classical > music, and browsing all albums at once is not very practical. Even > though I'm careful to tag my files properly, I've always used the Music > Folder option to access music because I find it's quickest. My classical > music is organised as follows: > > Composer -> Section (Orchestral/Chamber/Instrumental/Vocal) -> > Work-Performer > > Rather than browse by music folder, an alternative would be to allow > sorting by multiple tags, including custom tags created by the user (not > Muso tags, just standard FLAC/MP3 tags). > > My second request is for an option to switch the "cloud map" feature off > and just present normal lists of artists when browsing. I just find the > cloud map more difficult to scan than a standard list. > > And a final query: at the moment when I choose "Albums Sorted by > Artist", the albums don't seem always to appear in alphabetical order > (see screengrab). I can't see a problem with my tags. How does Muso sort > albums by Artist? > > EDIT: I've just noticed in the screengrab that Muso seems to be > organising by Year. I can't see an option to change this to alphabetical > order?
Yes within artist it's by year then album name. I'll try to think of a way to make it configurable, though as you can appreciate within each main sort there are many different secondary sort options - perhaps it should just remember the previous sort and apply that as secondary sort (eg. you would click by Name then by Artist). Browsing by folder doesn't really fit in with the current design since there is no hierarchical browsing capability (drilling down and then going back). Having said that, I have been thinking about building in this type of feature but it needs some careful planning. Where do you store your "Section" information - does this come across to muso via a tag? I'll look into making the cloud view into a list... one long list would be easy, but that could be one very long scrolling page with lots of wasted space to the right - ideally it should be column-formatted, I can look into the feasibility of that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jezbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9888 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91575 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
