Re: [Banshee-List] Mockups for now playing screen

[John <john happytocode com>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM, LCID Fire <lcid-fire gmx net> wrote:
> Andrew Conkling wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Nyall <nyall zombiepigs net
>> <mailto:nyall zombiepigs net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Now, my music is all tagged using musicbrainz data, so within the files
>>     themselves there's all sorts of lovely data like record labels,
>>     performers, recording details, etc...
>>     http://crossbow.com.au/zombiepigs/tags_existing_in_file.jpg
>>
>>     I'd love to see this information displayed on the now playing screen,
>>     somewhat like this:
>>     http://crossbow.com.au/zombiepigs/more_data_for_now_playing.jpg
>>
>>     That way, when I'm randomly listening to tracks from my collection, and
>>     I get a sudden urge to find out who's guest-performing on the current
>>     song, I can quickly flick across to the now playing view and see all
>>     this extra information!
>>
>>     Thoughts/comments?
>>
>>
>> I'd much prefer to have access to this in the Edit Metadata window
>> instead (not that it has to be either/or, just that I think the Now
>> Playing window could be used for other information, like the full song
>> and album titles rather than cutting them off ;).
> Why not both!?
Yes, why not, there is plenty of room for that.

Also I would like the displayed info be clickable like urls and be
used as filters or search keywords. Or maybe just as links for a
start. If I click on the artist name, it jumps me to the artist in the
tree... etc...