Re: [Banshee-List] The artist-centric nature of Banshee (particularly the grid view)

[Michiel Helvensteijn <mhelvens gmail com>]

On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:10 PM, "Andrés G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com> wrote:

> > In fact, there are 465 reported Banshee bugs with status NEW. That's
> > bugzilla shorthand for: no one has given this any attention.
> >
> > You see why this might be discouraging?
>
> Of course. But it is because you're looking at the set of reported & unfixed
> bugs.

No, I'm looking at the set of reported & *unprocessed* bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html

An unfixed bug I can understand. The problem is ignored bug-reports.

If you want to encourage people to report bugs, let them know that the
developers will at the very least spend a few minutes on every bug
report. Add a comment. Set it to ASSIGNED or READY. Even a status of
INVALID / WONTFIX / WORKSFORME / INCOMPLETE would give some closure.

> > (2) I've
> > tried three times now to import an album with artist, album artist,
> > cover art, etc. all filled in for every track, but still Banshee won't
> > show the cover art.
>
> I bet the bugfix I told you about in the beginning on this thread would fix
> this.

Give me the "bits", like you said, and I'll find the time to test it.

> > Language audio courses, nature sounds, memos, recorded phone-calls.
> > For a while I recorded myself at night to know if I was snoring. Am I
> > the artist in those tracks? :-)
>
> Then non-music audio :) So those files shouldn't show up in the
> "Music Library", but in other kind of library

Maybe. Or maybe it's a mistake to make any premature assumptions about
how people might want to use your software. Rather than decide that
music with no artist is impossible, the open-minded approach is to
consider the possibility that others may come up with a use-case that
you didn't, like computer-generated music.

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