Re: [Muine] Some UI comments

[Lars Weber <lars brokenbits de>]

Jorn Baayen <jorn nl linux org> wrote:
> [...] So, I tried appending it to the album title..
> But it looks very cluttered: http://nl.linux.org/~jorn/Muine/year.png

Yes, I agree that this doesn't look very clean.  Also appending it to the
album title has the problem that it's more likely to produce entries like
"*Album Title (supplement)* (year)".

Hmm... another option might be to put the year onto a separate line
(perhaps in a slightly smaller font than the default):

,-----------//
|-----------------------
| ####### *Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| ####### 1980
| #######
|-----------------------
| ####### *Live & Alive*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| #######
| ####### Bootleg
|-----------------------
| ####### *Never been on MTV*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| ####### 1984
| ####### Bootleg
`-----------//

... or maybe on a line together with the type-of-release information (a
smaller font might again be a good idea):

,-----------//
|-----------------------
| ####### *Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| ####### 1980
| #######
|-----------------------
| ####### *Live & Alive*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| ####### Bootleg
| #######
|-----------------------
| ####### *Never been on MTV*
| ####### Dead Kennedys
| ####### 1984, Bootleg
| #######
`-----------//

But ...

> i'm also not sure year is find useful by everyone. I have a huge
> collection for example, and I've never looked at the year apart from
> just interest ..

... if that's how you feel (and there's also no strong support for
displaying the year from other people) the right thing I think is just to
not display the year at all!

I'll likely just create a patch for personal use then to have Muine show
the year in the album list here :-)

> But how do I detect reliably whether something is a bootleg or not?

Unless something similar to libmusicbrainz is used to detect this kind of
information automatically the user would of course have to manually mark
the releases correspondingly.

Btw: it's not only about bootlegs but also about things like "Audiobook",
"Soundtrack", "Compilation", etc.  See the following location again for
the complete list of musicbrainz categories:

  http://musicbrainz.org/popup/attrguide.html

Regards,
Lars