Re: Re[2]: Netjuke 1.0b18-pre3 Released!

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 05:15 am, Florian Maul wrote:
> I remember having seen something similar here but I can't recreate it at
> the moment. Does this happen in any genre with any artists and any
> album?

so far yes. I have a lot of genres and a lot of artists, so I'm not going to 
check them all, but if I find one where this problem does not crop up I'll 
email you.


> My thoughts exactly. I just hesitated removing it since I'm don't know
> if anyone is using the pop up window function right now, for e.g.
> browsing through alphabet or artists with leaving the pop up window
> open.

true. since the pop-up feature is already there, why not make this an option? 
Add the ability to not use pop ups and have it so the user can decide.

> The first problem with that will be that netjuke doesn't now if an
> album is complete. Determining this accurately is not very easy
> whereas an "if (tracks > 6)" would do the trick in most cases. Not
> having any single track presented as album would be a step up though,
> at least with a collection of your size.

I see your point. Let me add another feature I've talked to Blake about that 
would solve this... AllMusicGuide/MusicBrainz interactivity. I have some more 
thoughts on this since I'm forced to use XP at work, I use Windows Media 
Player which integrates AMG.com. I'd still rather see AMG.com integration 
than musicbrainz, it has a lot more useful information... so I'm going to 
assume amg.com usage...
First, set up the database to store more than just the id3 tag info. Let it 
store the online review, main genre and sub genre's, etc. all the information 
possible(whether or not the user decides to store it...). Also let it store 
information like the total number of tracks in an album and if the whole 
album is in the database. This way the database can determine whether to show 
the album as a link or as independent tracks because it doesn't have all of 
them, and even add a feature so that an album that is say two tracks short of 
the total 14 can be considered "complete" (the admin can say an album is 
complete even if it isn't).
Anyway, I'm sure you can see the rest of the advantages this type of 
integration brings...

> As for selecting multiple albums (of an artists) at once using
> check boxes: I think it would be nice but we have not much space left
> in the userinterface. I don't want the userinterface become too crowded
> with buttons and checkboxes.

I'm just saying when the list is of the albums a certain artist has, in this 
specific case there is plenty of room for the check box.


> Do you mean column ordering of the explore view?

yes

> Interesting idea, but I don't see that being implemented in the near
> future since there are so many other things to work on atm.

yea, I just wanna throw the idea out there =)

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