Re: [Muine] album/song suggestion

[Yo'av Moshe <bjesus gmail com>]

As for the arrow, I'm a big fan of the idea too.

I don't like having the arrow on the right though, it seems a bit strange.
Think of a real note someone's writing:
 - bla bla:
 -- bla bla bla
 -- bla bla bla
 - bla:
 -- bla bla bla bla

How would it look if someone wrote it like this:
 bla bla - : 

?

The reason it is on the left is because that's the logical way.

However, I don't see how the arrow-on-left breaks the eye scanning.

Yo'av.

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 13:20:34 +0200, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On R, 2005-02-18 at 14:31 -0800, justin+gnome dicatek com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > (This should probably be a reply to "A few suggestions" but I just
> > subscribed to the list so I don't have it in my mail. Sorry...)
> 
> Welcome ;)
> 
> > It seems like one problem is the separation between albums and songs. A
> > separate problem that I have is that I listen mainly to classical music,
> > where the most important piece of information is the composer/artist which
> > is not shown in the playlist. Also often one album will have many many
> > tracks, which makes the playlist very long.
> 
> This depends on how you tag your files..
> 
> I listen to a lot of classical music as well, and tend to put the
> composer into "artist" and performers into "performer".
> 
> > My suggestion is for lists of music: have a list item with artist and
> > title and a picture of the CD, and below that, list each track on a
> > *single* line. So you're listing individual songs, but grouping by album.
> >
> > Something like this:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------
> > ******* J.S. Bach
> > **pic** Goldberg Variations
> > *******
> > *******
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Aria
> > Variation 1
> > Variation 2
> > Variation 3. Canon On The Unison
> > Variation 4
> > etc.
> > Variation 30. Quodlibet
> > Aria Da Capa
> > -------------------------------------------
> > ******* Beethoven
> > **pic** Symphony No. 9
> > *******
> > *******
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestroso
> > Molto vivace
> > Adagio molto e cantabile
> > Presto
> > Presto
> > -------------------------------------------
> >
> > Perhaps the length of the track could be listed on the right. If there's
> > only a single song from an album, you could just put the song name in the
> > list item for the album.
> >
> > Either the entire album could be selected, or individual tracks can be
> > selected.
> >
> > If there is a good way to show and hide the individual tracks (perhaps
> > only show tracks when the album is selected? Or on a search which matches
> > tracks...) then the "Play Song" and "Play Album" windows could be merged
> > to "Select Music" or something. Also this would help with my problem of
> > having a really long playlist.
> 
> I think this would probably end up being rather chaotic ..
> 
> Also, it is technically not very feasible.. as the rows will have
> variable height, which will disallow us to use treeview's "fixed height
> mode".. making it very slow for bigger collections.
> 
> > Another unrelated suggestion: one of those rotating arrow widgets to
> > show/hide the playlist in the main window would be convenient, so that I
> > could leave Muine up but not take up too much screen space.
> 
> This has come up a lot .. so far I've decided not to add it. A patch
> is here though:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162316
> 
> Right now it is very easy to see the structure of the window by scanning
> your eye along the left edge of the window. The main actual reason why
> I'm not commiting th expander is because the arrow in front of the
> "Playlist" label shifts the label a few pixels to the right. By that the
> "eye scanning" breaks.
> 
> Otherwise, I see it is a fairly useful feature to have. Having a small
> expander arrow on the right might work though, never thought of that
> before. I'll look into it.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jorn
> 
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