mvCentral 1.0.8.XXX by ajs (2 Viewers)

[ajs]

I'm also hoping you have time to do something Trevor never ended up adding, and that is to offer the option to switch "Track - Artist" view around to be "Artist - Track" instead, or at least allow a way to have the "Track - Artist" view be sorted on "Artist" instead of the default Track sort.

Hmmm, in GUI list i see Track and in other column Artist ...

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[RoChess]

Hmmm, in GUI list i see Track and in other column Artist ...

Correct, current view is:

Track	Artist
Dance Monkey	Tones And I
Let's Dance	David Bowie
Rock Me Amadeus	Falco
Space Oddity	David Bowie

And would like to have the ability to view it as (same view, simply sorted on "Artist" column):

Track	Artist
Let's Dance	David Bowie
Space Oddity	David Bowie
Rock Me Amadeus	Falco
Dance Monkey	Tones And I

Or if it is easier view it as (swap the two columns):

Artist	Track
David Bowie	Let's Dance
David Bowie	Space Oddity
Falco	Rock Me Amadeus
Tones And I	Dance Monkey

(or offer both views as an option)

 

[ajs]

Hmmm,what for? I run mvCentral and see all Artists, select artist and see albums and tracks, when i select album i see tracks, when select track i see Video movie


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[RoChess]

I enjoy the view of "Artist - Track" the same way I got all my files called "Artist - Track.mp4" and they are dumped in a single folder.

There is not a single artist I like all songs from, and my taste is very eclectic. Sometimes I want to locate a song, and I either know artist "starts with an L-something" and I just want to scroll through it while seeing song-titles to see if anything rings a bell.

Albums I don't care for at all, so I got that totally disabled for as much as possible.

Anyway, I'm sure I will eventually get my dev-environment up and running again, and get MePo to compile locally again, so I can just grab mvCentral source and fork it for my own preference, but I know of at least three other people that use their system in a comparable way so figured it would make more sense to maybe add it to the official release.

 

[ajs]

Hmm, mvCentral show or FileName (as is) or records from DB in order Artist -> Tracks, or Artist->Album->Tracks...

To be honest, I can’t understand your problem and model it, so I don’t understand what to fix. Or what to add. If you have ideas on how to do this, then this can be discussed either using pieces of source code, or in screenshots, or something else.

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[ajs]

And would like to have the ability to view it as (same view, simply sorted on "Artist" column):

But is it really impossible to change the sorting to the Artist?

Or if it is easier view it as (swap the two columns):

I don’t remember if there is such a display mode, but I can’t understand how you get all the tracks by artists, I can only have all the tracks by one artist. Maybe I don’t know something ...

 

[mrbonsen]

i'm observing the topic and hope i understood correctly
screen 01 shows the sorting and we only see artist and only with a click do I see track.I also deactivated album (nonsense and more clicks).
screen 02 shows the sorting that would be possible but doesn't work.
so now i am looking for a title without knowing which artist, i already have a problem.
can the sorting be implemented as in mymusik, screen 03 (without number ) ? artis - track and / or track - artist. then the search function of the track works
I suspect this is @RoChess

oh, files are all in one folder and correctly titled "artist - title"

 

[ajs]

screen 02 shows the sorting that would be possible but doesn't work.

Do all sort types not work?

can the sorting be implemented as in mymusik, screen 03? artis - track and / or track - artist. then the search function of the track works
I suspect this is @RoChess

In theory, this is solved either by the sorting method, or by the viewing method. I don’t remember what is there and how it works.

 

[mrbonsen]

for me only "name" works hope no error in db

 

[ajs]

oh, files are all in one folder and correctly titled "artist - title"

This is not important as far as I remember, but in the settings you can enable to show the file names and not the names from the database.
All files during scanning get into the database and from there are displayed to the user.