Re: artist > album listing

John Dennett <[email protected]> Sat, 31 May 2003 14:32:13 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.netjuke.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm enthusiastically in favor of this as well.  When you're managing a 
collection this large...

	33564 Tracks	3820 Artists	2441:16:52
	2711 Albums	25 Genres	157.32 GB

...the current view of artist > tracks is nearly useless.

Cheers!
John

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:48  PM, 
[email protected] wrote:

>> 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.
>
> YES! A more album-centric view would be great - especially for those 
> of us who have a large collection of songs loaded into netjuke.
> When I select an artist, I really naturally want a list of the albums 
> of that artist - and not of all the tracks.
> After that I would dig down to the album I like to hear or select a 
> track from.
> I can fully support Steven's proposal!



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