On my wish list right now (other than finally getting MP4 to work ;-):
- when I change the "artist" or "genre" selection it should not
systematically clear my selection in "album" (and in "artist" when
changign the "genre").
E.g. in iTunes I often do things like:
- Select artist "Caf� del Mar", then select album "Caf� del Mar - Volumen
6", then select artist "all". This shows me all the songs on "Caf� del
Mar - Volumen 6", even those that are not by "Caf� del Mar".
- Select genre "Jazz", then select artist "Astor Piazzolla", then select
genre "all". This gives me all the songs/albums by Astor Piazzolla,
even those that are not jazz.
In Rhythmbox such things don't work because as soon as I select "all" in
artist, my selection of album "Caf� del Mar - Volumen 6" is forgotten,
and as soon as I select "all" in genre, my selection of artist "Astor
Pizzolla" is forgotten as well.
- I was thinking again about this issue of "too many artists" which appears
typically with compilations, and I think it may be useful to introduce
the notion of an "album" object with fields similar to the fields
of songs. This way you could have a song by MoJo-Tire on an album by The
Big White Elefants. And you could distinguish the year of a song from the
year of its album. You could also have electronica songs on an album
that's you'd rather classify overall as jazz.
Most album objects could be created automatically:
- if all songs of an album are from the same artist and from the same
year, it's trivial.
- else call it a compilation album with unknown artist.
Then the "artist" and "genre" list could be either applied to songs or to
albums, where the "artists of albums" view wouldn't suffer from the "too
many artists" problem.
-- Stefan
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