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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:07 pm
by spiftire
Hi.
I'll just start up by saying I love Guayadeque with all its cool feature and the fact that I can handle my big music library.
But there is something about the look of the player. To me it looks a bit cheap and underdeveloped, not aimed at being user friendly, but just hyped on features. So I just have an input on how the player could look and act.

The way I see it, from a user perspective, the information I am most interested in when I browse my music is the following: Artist, Album Title, Track Title, Track Number, Cover art, Length, Rating and maybe Year. All the rest I don't really care about. The question is how to display this information.
I don't want to look at a bunch of lines where a whole lot of the columns look the same.

Eg. If I search for "The Beatles" in my library I will see the name "The Beatles" on my screen like a hundred times but all in one column! This is not needed. Display the artist name once! Same with album title. Display it once for all the songs on the album. Then you can fit the Cover art, Year and Album rating together with it.

I want to look at my music collection as if I had hard-copies of all the records, not just a bunch of files.

I have attached a draft of how the library could look. See if you like it.

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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 12:44 pm
by anonbeat
That is a nice idea and remind me the iTunes Album View or something like this. I will try to include something like this in the near versions.

Thanks for your help

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Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 9:55 pm
by mekanix
This seems very cool!

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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 12:22 am
by spiftire
To be honest, the idea is very much based on iTunes.

I have some other ideas of how it should work as well. When scrolling through the library the Artist should always stick to the songs. Eg. When scrolling the library an artist with a lot of recordings might have to many songs to fit on one page. Then the name might get scrolled away. I think the artist name should not disapair from the main window as you scroll. but it should always stick next to the songs played by the artist.

Same thing with album title.

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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 4:30 am
by Linye
I'm liking this

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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:48 pm
by Lysias
Indeed, this could be interesting.

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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 9:23 am
by l300lvl
I vote for this as well, as I had a previous post requesting for album art in the 'select columns' track list view, as this would achieve the same functionality with some additional customizations possible. Cant wait to see this implemented

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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 8:18 pm
by MattSan
This is similar to MediaMonkeys display. Anything which brings Guayadeque closer to MM is a win as far as I am concerned :)

Can you tell that I miss MM ?

Attached a random pic from the net showing almost exactly what you describe.

Edit: Pic doesn't show that in fact mutiple tracks from the same album can be shown with one Album Art if you sort display by Artist/Album Art in MM. But still gives you an impression as to what it looks like.