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Different Library View like in Amarok #2335

Open Clementine-Issue-Importer opened 10 years ago

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From marcoleb...@gmail.com on October 25, 2011 12:20:34

Hey guys,

back in Amarok 14, there were different views for the library, one that was similar to the ipod-design, where you can select one or more artists and then see all their songs in the same frame. I am really missing this view (especially because it didn't have the Various Artists item, but listed all artists), is there a way to have it in Clementine as well?

Thanks!

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/clementine-player/issues/detail?id=2335

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From raffraff...@gmail.com on June 25, 2012 15:03:09

This! I spent years compiling Amarok 1.4 after it was discontinued, but that's simply not sustainable. I used Clementine for a week or two when it first appeared, then went back to Pana... but it was simply a rebranded Amarok and died off. This missing feature drove me to use MusicBee on (nnngh) Windows, which galls me. The reason I don't use Clementing (or Amarok 2) is the total inflexibility of the library view. That stupid 'tree' in which you get the amazing choice of which attribute will be the trunk and which will be the branches. Brilliant. With the columns view in Amarok 1.4 I could enable (eg) 'last played', 'comments' and 'rating' if I felt like it, then filter based on 'comments' and sort by 'last played'. Total flexibility, which is exactly what you want when you're browsing through your library. Maybe I'm just "doing it wrong" but I've always found the tree thing pointlessly restrictive. Amarok 2 lets you view your playlist any damn way you want, but what's the point in showing you all of the metadata AFTER you've selected the songs? Isn't the metadata there to let you actually select music? (Off my soap box now)

Clementine-Issue-Importer commented 10 years ago

From vincent....@gmail.com on December 30, 2012 03:30:20

I know we can use column filters, but views are an easy way to keep configurations without losing time applying or removing filters again. E.g. In Winamp, i have some built-in views like 'recently played', 'recently added', 'genres', 'audio by year', and it's possible to chose which column we'd like to see in each. Those are saved and switching from one to another is pretty quick.