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<blockquote data-quote="jburnette" data-source="post: 299419" data-attributes="member: 24356">Great to hear.&nbsp; I can say that pretty much every design decision was based on whether or not my wife thought it was pretty enough or easy enough to use, so I figured that would make it much easier to convince everyone elses boss to use it.&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />------------------------On a side note, I've completed the last.fm grabber and rewrote a good portion of the scanning routine.&nbsp; It's about twice as fast now and can now automatically match up about 50% more videos than the previous Allmusic grabber.&nbsp; A scan of 300 videos now only takes about 20 minutes from start to finish.&nbsp; Because of this Style/Tone/Genre view has been replaced by the new &quot;Tag View&quot; which is essentially a combination of the three.From the research I've done over the past few days, the first tag is generally the Genre.&nbsp; I'm also implementing a tag manager so that you can combine tags like, for example, &quot;hip-hop&quot;, &quot;hip hop&quot;, and &quot;rap&quot; into one tag.&nbsp; This will make things much cleaner, I believe, and allow you to have much more control over subdividing your Artists by tag.&nbsp; I think it removes a lot of confusion and gives a cleaner look as I never actually used Style or Tone view anyway.&nbsp; It's actually a lot more powerful this way in my opinion.&nbsp; I'm also writing it so that you can automatically add tags based on folder structure and completely ignore the last.fm tags.&nbsp; This will allow a pseudo &quot;Genre&quot; view or &quot;Style&quot; view if that's all you wanted, for example.The problem with this large change is that everyone's old database will need to be upgraded.&nbsp; I'm also adding a conversion method that will add the videos back to the new database based on the previous order they were in, and copy the playcount, rarting, and score fields over.&nbsp; Doing it like this will ensure you can keep your most recent view and top 100 view in the same order and not lose any information.&nbsp; This will require all videos to be researched on last.fm, though, in order to obtain the needed information for the new database fields.&nbsp; On my system this only took abot 30 minutes total, so no big deal there.&nbsp; Ideally this won't happen again, though.A question for everyone regarding fan art implementation.&nbsp; Should fan art only be displayed in arists/tag view, or displayed both there and in top 100 and most recent view?&nbsp; It seems to me like including it in top 100 view and most recent view would make scrolling up an down on the videos a bit confusing due to the quickly changing backgrounds when scrolling fast.Just watned to give a quick satus report.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jburnette, post: 299419, member: 24356"] Great to hear. I can say that pretty much every design decision was based on whether or not my wife thought it was pretty enough or easy enough to use, so I figured that would make it much easier to convince everyone elses boss to use it. :D ------------------------ On a side note, I've completed the last.fm grabber and rewrote a good portion of the scanning routine. It's about twice as fast now and can now automatically match up about 50% more videos than the previous Allmusic grabber. A scan of 300 videos now only takes about 20 minutes from start to finish. Because of this Style/Tone/Genre view has been replaced by the new "Tag View" which is essentially a combination of the three. From the research I've done over the past few days, the first tag is generally the Genre. I'm also implementing a tag manager so that you can combine tags like, for example, "hip-hop", "hip hop", and "rap" into one tag. This will make things much cleaner, I believe, and allow you to have much more control over subdividing your Artists by tag. I think it removes a lot of confusion and gives a cleaner look as I never actually used Style or Tone view anyway. It's actually a lot more powerful this way in my opinion. I'm also writing it so that you can automatically add tags based on folder structure and completely ignore the last.fm tags. This will allow a pseudo "Genre" view or "Style" view if that's all you wanted, for example. The problem with this large change is that everyone's old database will need to be upgraded. I'm also adding a conversion method that will add the videos back to the new database based on the previous order they were in, and copy the playcount, rarting, and score fields over. Doing it like this will ensure you can keep your most recent view and top 100 view in the same order and not lose any information. This will require all videos to be researched on last.fm, though, in order to obtain the needed information for the new database fields. On my system this only took abot 30 minutes total, so no big deal there. Ideally this won't happen again, though. A question for everyone regarding fan art implementation. Should fan art only be displayed in arists/tag view, or displayed both there and in top 100 and most recent view? It seems to me like including it in top 100 view and most recent view would make scrolling up an down on the videos a bit confusing due to the quickly changing backgrounds when scrolling fast. Just watned to give a quick satus report. [/QUOTE]

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