>all the more reason to redo things like i've been saying and you're >against. it would be much simpler if the view you enter was based on >your own criteria that you then sort, rather than the way it is now >where the view is their static rule that you have limited control >over. > When browsing to the albums that belong to a chosen artist, I'm quite happy with the view that I get. i.e. a list of albums for the artist, that can be sorted by album name or year. I don't really need anything else.
Similarly when browsing a chosen genre, the ability to list albums by name, artist or year. Similarly when browsing a chosen year, the ability to list albums by name, artist or genre is useful. The only thing that I think would be nice is to show appearances on compilation albums in a separate area in the list (web UI), i.e. perhaps on a player UI, to see "Compilations > " as a sub-area, and/or a way to hide compilations from the albums list page. >and it only gets worse when you bring VA/comp issues into it, as you >stated. > It's no worse - exactly the same, just doesn't work reliably and could do with fixing. >> That's why I generally use Browse Artists, Genre or Year instead. Much >> more useful. > >but this is why i say "home>artists" and "home>albums" and so on are >dopey. in other apps, you could limit what is in the view first of >all, and then secondly you could sort it however you wanted, so you >wouldn't have the easily avoided stupid problem of 'where does the >album show' if it has differing years b/c the view inself has a >constraint. > I've no idea what you mean. Not clear at all. Browsing the albums for a chosen artist, via Browse Artists > [artist] >, is putting a constraint on the Albums view (i.e. only albums where the artist is involved). This is limiting what is in the view. >in other words, the very innate design of SBS leads to such conundrums >b/c it has faulty assumptions. my suggestion would avoid that kind of >thing entirely, and do what you want. > I don't get what you mean - what conundrum/faulty assumptions? If I want to find music related to year 2010, I can Browse Years > 2010, and get a list of albums. That means I don't have to start with an unconstrained list of albums, sort it by year, and then scroll down until I find the albums associated with 2010. More so, it means that an album that has songs in different years can be found within the albums list for several chosen years, rather than: a) the album only appearing once under an arbitrary year (current behaviour or sorting albums by year). b) having to scroll through a potentially a long list where several compilation albums may be repeated many times (once per year). _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
