Re: Netjuke 1.0b18-pre3 Released!

On Friday 30 May 2003 06:58 pm, Blake Watters wrote:
> 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.
awesome

> 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.
cool, I can wait =)

> 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?

As far as regular albums, I agree, it should be a user option, with a default 
for the system(obviously). The display of this setting I agree with how you 
state it too.
As far as handling Compilation albums, it is a tough call. I personally would 
want to see a link to the album like the others, with a note of some sort 
saying its a compilation. But I could see how some people might want it 
another way, so maybe the answer is to set it up as an option for the user to 
decide. I can see how this many options is a pain in the ass, but at the same 
time, the ability to have software work for more than one type of person is 
what I like about open source software =)

> I don't follow quite what you mean here.
when you get a track listing for an album or an artist, the columns are 
ordered like this:
<options><Track Name><Time><Artist><Album><Track #><Genre>
I'd like to be able to change the ordering of the columns. I can see keeping 
the options column first as a constant, but I think the other columns should 
be user configurable as far as the order they are displayed. 


> 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.

yea. I could really care less about a deeply involved message system, I'm 
thinking more of a mail type system. Specifically so my friends can flag a 
track that might be cut short or bad quality so I can fix/delete it. But it 
would also be neat if you could send "listen to this track" kind of messages. 
But I agree, it something that can wait until the necessary stuff is 
completed.


--Steven



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