Artist not shown

[cproensa]

I understand the minimalis approach for the UI, but i really miss:

• On "tracks" list, Artis is not displayed, for each track. Only shown is title and album.
• On player, No artist is shown, again only title and album

[epoupon]

Yes this was removed from 3.29.0 AFAIR. It's not so easy, because there can be several artists, and this makes the interface really more cumbersome.

• For the "tracks" view, we could add the release artists / track artists in the track information panel, where are already displayed composers, mixers, etc.
• For the "player", we could expose the track information panel. maybe using this already existing info (i):

[cproensa]

It's not so easy, because there can be several artists, and this makes the interface really more cumbersome.

Dont worry, i am a new user, so i see this from that perspective. And this has susprised me, as i would expect that showing the artist is some basic information. As i understand, from experience of other players and tagging tools, there are two basic concepts:

• artist, which refers to the specific track
• album artirst which refers to the album for the track

When browsing the Tracks view, i expect to see the artist (some kind of "artist"). Otherwise, i am at a loss, becasue most of the time, the track name, or the album name, does not help in identifying them:

If i had to suggest a change, then either:

• Show the artist next to the track title
• Show the album artist next to the album title

Any of those would help

Whe you said:

For the "tracks" view, we could add the release artists / track artists in the track information panel, where are already displayed composers, mixers, etc.

Where is that "track information panel"? does it exists somewhere? I cant find it... maybe my version is not up todate?

In the case of the player, if i had to suggest something, i think showing the track artist is the bare minimum. When i have to look at the player, for example when listening some random playlist, the most relevant info i usually need (besides title and album) is the artist of the track.

using this already existing info (i):

I cant see that (i) icon, is it something already existing, or a mockup? Having some extended information behind that icon is fine. But still, track artist should have its own place always visible.

Other idea, but this is just thinking loud, and outside of the scope of the initial request: The player bar can have two variants:

• condensed, like it is now
• expanded, bigger with more space to show more stuff like the cover and additional track info.

Anyway, this all comes from my point of view as a new user. Thanks for listening :)

[epoupon]

As i understand, from experience of other players and tagging tools, there are two basic concepts: artist, which refers to the specific track /album artirst which refers to the album for the track

Yes, there are these two concepts (LMS handles more like composers, conductors, performers, etc.). Each of this field can be multi-valued (even album artists!). Example in the album view, some tracks have several track artists :

Where is that "track information panel"? does it exists somewhere? I cant find it... maybe my version is not up todate?

Other artist relationships can be seen there:

If i had to suggest a change, then either:

• Show the artist next to the track title
• Show the album artist next to the album title

AFAIR in LMS <= 3.28.0:

• artists were written in italic in their own line in the track view, but that really made each track too high
• the first track artist was put before the album name in the player (but in mobile view there is not enough room + miss some information since only the first one is displayed)

Putting multiple artists and then an album on the same line would likely be confusing, or it would require to change the style for release or artist, something I wanted to get rid of at the time. But maybe this can be handled differently. Will think about it to try to find a sleek solution to all this!

[cproensa]

A small information, is betther than none So, if space is a constraint, can be put as a text limited with ellipsis. Eg: Artist 1 / Some othe(...)

[epoupon]

Maybe something like it is done on Apple Music for the player: artists are separated by , and the release is put after —

Does not really work on mobile though, as the line is way often too long. On Apple Music, the release name is hidden on mobiles, but I find more convenient to hide the artists (easier to get everything you want from the release, especially for compilations like in the example)

[epoupon]

After thinking about it, the small image is already a link to the release, so that would make sense to only put artists. And after all, the layout used on Apple music is not that bad:

Smaller, hide the release name:

Even smaller, put the artists below the track name:

Even smaller, hide duration and play button:

[cproensa]

Regarding the player. This is an example of how it looks in Navidrome the "expanded view" of the player, on mobile screen sizes:

So, if the player bar can have an alternate bigger view, to show more complete information, the fact that the "condensed" view omits the album, or anything else, then is not so relevant. If i start playing a list, most of the cases i would prefer to leave this expanded view on so i can look at what is being played

[cproensa]

Hello, i got the new version running and this small change is very welcomed! Thanks a lot for your quick work