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

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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!?