Re: Searching by Genre & Browser View

>>>>> "P" == Peter   writes:

[...]

P> I generally have the browser view set to only show
Artists &
P> Albums.  The search bar has buttons to restrict the
search to All,
P> Artists, Albums and Tracks.  This is visually
consistent.

P> However, it appears that when search is set to all, it
also
P> searches the genre...

P> So, why isn't there a "Genre" search
refinement button?  This would
P> also serve as a visual queue that the genre is
searched when you
P> have selected search "All".

P> Alternatively, the search buttons and search fields
could depend on
P> the option set for the Browser View (i.e. Album &
Artist, Genre &
P> Artist, Genres, Artists & Albums) plus track
titles.

Adding another button might make it a little busy, but it
wouldn't be
a problem if the radio buttons were replaced with an
Evolution-style
drop-down menu as discussed on: http://bugs.gnome.org/35
5869  (see the
screenshot attached to that bug).

P> Plus a related thought - I notice that I can set the
Browser View
P> to be hidden for one source (e.g. main library) but
visible for
P> another (e.g.  Jamendo).  This is nice - and useful to
me because
P> the browser (with genre) is very helpful in exploring
the Jamendo
P> offerings, while for my own library I don't use the
browser at all.

P> I might like to have the browser show "Artist
& Album" in the
P> library, but "Genre, Artist & Album" for
Jamendo.  Does anyone else
P> thing this would be nice - or would it simple be
confusing the
P> preference for a minority desire?

I think it would be useful for the type of browser to be
able to be
set per source (rather than globally as it does at present).
 iTunes
can do this, so I filed an enhancement request:

http://bugs.gnome.org/42
0476

Alex
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