Re: Netjuke 1.0b18-pre3 Released!

Steven -

At 09:22 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
>"Albums By" still does not work correctly for me. Now it just says "Albums By
>(genre name)".

Yeah I noticed this while I was at 20,000 feet on Tuesday morning. It's 
already been fixed and pushed into CVS. It was the result of my fix for the 
multiple entries for the same album in explore view.

>Some other ideas(I'll post these to the sourceforge Feature Requests forum
>too, I just though discussion could be had here if so deemed by people)...
>
>1. I'd like to see the use of pop up windows eliminated. Is there any work
>being done on this already? Either as an option or permanently. I don't know
>what others feelings are on this, but I find them annoying and without
>advantage over just loading these pop-up pages in the main window.

I'm planning major preference changes for the UI in b19. Popup windows, 
fields shown in search view, etc will all become options. For now the 
codebase is frozen until b18 is out the door, but we'll be getting on this 
real soon now.

>2. Would it be possible to have an option that when an artist to whom more
>than one album exists in the database, that a list of albums is presented
>when choosing a search on that artist as opposed to listing all the tracks by
>that artist? I'd include that the albums should have a checkbox next to them
>with the option of displaying all tracks in the selected albums or clicking
>on a single album name causes that albums tracks to be presented.
>Also, if they belong to any albums that are a "Various Artists" album, that
>the album is given a link there as well and not just the individual track. Of
>course, if a random single mp3 is in the database that does not belong to a
>complete album it can be shown on its own in the list.

Hmm, this is an interesting idea. One solution may be to couple this option 
with the explore view -- having searches be returned to the explore page 
rather than the flat track display. This way, a search would result in a 
table of albums by the artist (if searching for an artist), genres they 
belong too, etc. This would also allow for switching to the traditional 
track view via the List All buttons in the table headers. I resist the idea 
of the admin having a checkbox to control how the tracks are presented to 
the user -- this is a user preference and should behave as such. I've been 
thinking long and hard on how to handle the "Various Artist" (or as I call 
it, the Compilation) problem. I don't think hardcoding this sort of logic 
is the right answer, but I don't have the solution just yet. Thoughts?

>3. Track listing column reordering. I'd like to see the ability to change the
>column order of display. I know different people have different preferences
>as to the order they want it to be displayed, allowing each user to change
>this option would be nice.

I don't follow quite what you mean here.

>4. a simple messaging system. Allow users to send each other messages (like
>"Hey Blake, check this album/track/artist out!" with the ability to link a
>certain album/track/artist to the message) with a specific option for a user
>to put an administrative alert on a track/album with a note(like "hey! this
>track has pops" or "hey! this track is not complete").

This sort of thing is in the pipeline as well. I want the Community section 
to really come alive in the future, but we need to carefully spec out the 
features -- resisting bloat is as important as putting in good community 
features. Perhaps we should store AIM/Jabber/ICQ or some such information 
and just facilitate messaging? I'm not quite sure what the answer will be. 
I'd like to hear everyone's take on it before we start cutting code.

Blake

>uhm.. I think thats it.
>pre3 is running fine so far for me. and netjuke is handling my mp3's fine...
>
>CONTENT SUMMARY
>26274 Tracks    2583 Artists    1652:54:08
>1788 Albums     76 Genres       135.34 GB
>...
>
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