Re: Displaying the total number of tracks (was: Re: [Muine] Some thoughts on playlist management)

[Yo'av Moshe <bjesus gmail com>]

I tend to agree with Jorn on this - we really should be careful adding
extra information which is not needs for 100% of the people.

But I'm just wondering - when are you planning to introduce this
feature? Is it going to be somewhere soon? Muine has been very quite
for the last months, but it seems there's a huge waking lately.

Yo'av.


On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:40:38 +0100, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> wrote:
> The plan is to add "Properties" functionality, so then you should be
> able to click "Properties" in the add album window to see what is in an
> album. Much more like watching the back cover of a CD ..
> 
> Every bit of information that is more displayed in the main UI reduces
> the overall overview .. so I'm very careful adding any non-essential
> things.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jorn
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 13:17 +0100, uws wrote:
> > På Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:47:26AM +0100, Jorn Baayen skrev:
> > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 16:26 +0100, uws wrote:
> > > > I only found a patch doing exactly what I suggested. The message can be
> > > > found at [1]. There are no replies in the archive. Can you explain why the
> > > > developers think this is a bad idea?
> > > >   mvrgr, Wouter
> > > > [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/muine-list/2004-April/msg00068.html
> >
> > > It's come up more often than that one link you give there. For instance:
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/muine-list/2004-November/msg00094.html
> >
> > IMHO this issue is not solved by using groups. I have a lot of albums
> > missing one or two songs, but I still like to listen to the remainder of the
> > album.
> >
> > When I listen to a regular audio cd in my regular CD player (no computers
> > involved), I always look at the back of the CD cover to see how many tracks
> > the album has. As I think of Muine as a replacement for regular audio cd's
> > (I like to rip them to ogg/vorbis), I really do want to see the number of
> > tracks.
> >
> > It's such a trivial enhancement that doesn't clutter the interface at all,
> > that I really don't see the point in not adding the total number of songs
> > below the artist and album title.
> >
> >   mvrgr, Wouter
> > 
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