Further info/ideas...
I often play albums, but get to an album to play in different ways. eg. either
by browsing new music, artists, genres, years. By listing random songs/albums
and choosing an album to play based on something from the results.
Trackstat/Dynamic Playlist provides a lot of good ideas for finding music to
play, but not in hierarchical structures, so navigating through the lists is
awkward.
I have built some custom menus, but often have different ideas for how I'd like
to find something. eg. "List only albums that I haven't listened to in over a
year", etc. I often want to browse music from players in new ways, but would
have to go to web UI to configure a new menu first, so I find alternative ways
based on what I have already configured.
Instead, I'd like something a bit more easy to access from player UI's. e.g.
to be able to
a) select a sub-set of music (i.e. choose 0, 1 or more filters) - such as a
particular music library, or something like custom skip filters, or TrackStat
menus.
b) choose a hierarchy for browsing the results. eg. any combination of
artists, genres, years, age since adding music to library (in months or weeks),
rating, play counts, etc. Could be one level or multiple levels deep. Maybe
not totally dynamic; could pre-create a list of possible hierarchies to choose
from.
c) choose a sort order at each hierarchy level.
d) store configured menus as menus for easy access next time.
i.e. I'd see it working with some form of context menu. eg. under "My Music >
Browse", have a list of previously created menus. Within a menu, use context
menu options to change filter, hierarchy and sorting (for the current level in
the hierarchy). Changes would be persisted for this menu, and provide a way
create a new menu (perhaps menu name could default to name of "<filter> by
<hierarchy>", but allow it to be manually renamed).
Example filters:
No filter
Not Played albums
Albums with 5* Rated songs
Added to library within last n months/weeks
by Music Library
Not compilations/guest appearances
Example hierarchies:
artist>album
genre>album
genre>artist>album
year>artist>album
Example sort orders >
Title
Date added
Year
Rating
Last played
Should be much easier to configure than Custom Browse menu editing, and
accessible on any player.
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