Classical Mode: help needed!

[Stephen Healy]

The current version of the folder view is not our final vision for it; its first implementation was relatively functional after which we would gauge how much it was realistically being used by customers. We do agree that it could benefit from a visual improvement for the reasons you have outlined above; it's the one mode where you can really categorise and structure things is a customised way that you have chosen, in a way that is relatively simple compared to lots of metadata editing etc. So, this certainly is not off the cards. I do think it also extends beyond Classical users; folders can categorise in all others sorts of ways that users decide, such as by decade, or by Alphabetical grouping (A folder, B folder, etc).

As an aside regarding the erroneous 'Schubert', do note you can edit the Artist page and try an alternative lookup for the correct composer version, and you can add/remove text as you see fit from the bio section and also upload your own image of the artist.

 

[Stephen Healy]

5. A general point is that the app should be able to detect all metadata tags and allow one to group and/or search by them. Things like "Conductor", "Orchestra" - or whatever else is found in the music library.

We do have a browse by tags mode, and these tags can also be applied as a filter on the Albums view. The bigger challenge/question here is how those tags get applied in the first place. I noticed in one of your examples that you sub-divided some Beethoven albums by genre using separated folders - what if we had a mechanism/ability whereby the parent folder names could be inserted as tags into the library?

 

[d.c.palmer]

We do agree that it could benefit from a visual improvement for the reasons you have outlined above; it's the one mode where you can really categorise and structure things is a customised way that you have chosen, in a way that is relatively simple compared to lots of metadata editing etc. So, this certainly is not off the cards.

Hi Stephen,

Thank you so much for your kind consideration, which is greatly appreciated. It is also really nice to see the company actively engaging with its users and responding to feedback: an excellent sign!

Thanks also for the tip about editing Artist details in this way (though it would be good to have a preference not to automatically load data from the internet; I’m probably in a tiny minority on this one though).

Best wishes,
David

 

[d.c.palmer]

I noticed in one of your examples that you sub-divided some Beethoven albums by genre using separated folders - what if we had a mechanism/ability whereby the parent folder names could be inserted as tags into the library?

Yes, this might help, though it could be overkill in a general case.

For example, in my Naim/Minim Server app, when I browse by Artist, the app always uses the same subcategories - Albums, Tracks, Genres…

- That might be fine for a very-prolific “Artist” (e.g., Beethoven) but becomes tedious for less-prolific ones (e.g., Bax) as I have to keep drilling down through a burdensome hierarchy to find a small number of works.

I hope this makes sense!

 

[DanCollier]

Hi Stephen,

Thank you so much for your kind consideration, which is greatly appreciated. It is also really nice to see the company actively engaging with its users and responding to feedback: an excellent sign!

Thanks also for the tip about editing Artist details in this way (though it would be good to have a preference not to automatically load data from the internet; I’m probably in a tiny minority on this one though).

Best wishes,
David

One other small point in addition to Stephens, when you rip a CD, you can do so in assisted mode so you can edit the metadata prior to it saving on the system. Just go to Disc Ripper via the system page and you can switch modes.