Clickable currently playing song info to quick filter artist/album/year

[flagg19]

To be clearer, I mean that by clicking on the name of the album, the left panel should switch to Albums (if it wasn't already there) with that album already filtered. I think it would help navigating big libraries.

Also, on other apps I frequently filter by year, I see that the year is the only main attribute saved but not usable for search/filter. Is there a particular reason?

[IrosTheBeggar]

I made the artist and album clickable in the latest commit

What kind of behavior do you expect when sorting by year?

[flagg19]

M... good question. On my main PC I use a music program called "MusicBee" which handles years like this:

(Anno = Year in Italian)

When sorting by year, there's a timeline above that let you quickly jump to the first song of the list for that year (how it decides how to sort songs inside each year group, I don't know). So it's not actually filtering, it's sorting + a shortcut to get to the desired year.

Now, back to mStream, there's no way to explicitly sort songs AFAIK, so this approach would require too many changes. Maybe something like this:

And clicking on an year would get you to... m... Let's see, now:

• File explorer -> folder -> folder -> ... -> songs
• Albums -> album -> songs
• Artists -> artist -> album -> songs

Three options:

• Years -> year -> songs // bad, likely too many results to be a meaningful filter
• Years -> year -> album -> songs // acceptable, I guess?
• Years -> year -> artist -> album -> songs // maybe too many steps?

Honestly, I'm not sure, when I asked I thought it was obvious but now that I think of it, it's not. My use case is, a decent part of my library is made of artists/albums/songs in languages that do not use standard ASCII characters, so remembering exact names, and even if I do, actually typing them, is very difficult. One of the best way to find things is by year (and cover arts).

I think adding the Years menu options that works like this:

• Years -> year -> album -> songs

would be helpful, and since it behaves like Albums it shouldn't be to difficult to implement. But in the end, I understand that it's probably a niche case that only I would use.