Re: [Muine] Song information dialog

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen dds nl>]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:16 -0800, Link Dupont wrote:

> Time to clean up these quote blocks. This is getting ridiculous.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:18, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > > I have no strong opinion here.. 
> > > > 
> > > > I think that when you are listening to a song there is no need to know
> > > > what genre it is, as you know what kind of music you are listening to
> > > > already anyway..
> > > > 
> > > > Also, I find genre information rather useless myself.. I have a lot of
> > > > music that could be categorised as either progressive rock,
> > > > instrumental, or jazz, or whatever more.. so whats the use then .. 
> > > > Of course, it works pretty well if you have a collection composed of
> > > > both Mozart and trance, but I tend to think that's pretty rare ..
> > > > 
> > > > But if the tag carries any real value to people I don't mind adding it.
> > > 
> > > Good points about genre. It really is something I could live without. I
> > > just use it because its there.
> > 
> > The fact you use it does imply it has some use. What do you use it for
> > exactly?
> 
> I primarily use genre tags because Rhythmbox will search by it, allowing
> me to, say, play all my JPop music (rather than me search for: Maaya
> Sakamoto, Ayumi Hamasaki, Hitomi, Mai Kuraki, Yoko Kanno, Yuki Kajiura,
> Utada Hikaru). I agree that the Genre tag should be multi-faceted
> though, like GENRE=JPop,Trance or something.

Yea, OK.

The idea is that at some we will have groups with predefined groups for
the different genres you have. But I don't think that information is of
any use in the song info window.

As for defining multiple genres- very well possible once we have a
decent tagger app supporting multiple tags of the same kind. You could
then do something like: (Muine already picks up multiple tags..)

TITLE=Om
ARTIST=Sven Grünberg
GENRE=Progressive Rock
GENRE=Jazz

> 
> > This isn't a mockup I'm attaching, but a screenshot of CVS. This is just
> > to show what the GtkTable layout looks like. This is not at all what the
> > end result will look like ..  hopefully, anyway ..
> 
> Yes, I can see your point about end result. But its definetely a start.
> What if I don't have the complete album? I think there needs to be a way
> to differentiate between Album info & individual song info. Maybe with a
> clickable "link" between the two?

Yea, we definitely need song info too. Because if I request the
information window from the pray, I primarily want to see which song is
playing. Seeing the album only tells me the album. A clickable link
would do prolly, but we could also have both in the dialog.. with a
separator in between or so..


Jorn