Hi all. I've made a quick patch to demonstrate an alternative UI idea - an "Album Info" column to replace the "Artist" and "Album" columns. It is particularly suited to libraries consisting mainly or entirely of albums, for which the current layout (IMO, at least) is annoyingly cluttered by the repeated artist - album names. It has a number of problems - it sort of breaks the expectations of a column, particularly with sorting, it doesn't work when the playlist *isn't* sorted by artist->album, and there could be a better label for it than "Album Info". On the other hand, it offers an obvious space to present information relevant to an album as a whole - genre, album date, composer, etc in a way that doesn't clutter when it's not present and doesn't take up much precious UI space. It reduces the necessary columns by one, allowing me to get all my info on a single non-scrolling pane, and I think it emphasises the grouping of the tracks by album. Plus, the implementation sorts by artist->album->tracknumber when you sort by the Album-info column :) The implementation could be cleaner (and more complete), and I'll work to fix it up if people are interested. Thanks
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