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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: john6555 on March 07, 2010, 09:54:44 PM
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Congrats on the big improvements in this update!
I still have to explore the new functionality fully but for now I have noticed one small thing - would it be possible to have the selectable option to show the album artist for the biography page? typically the artist is what you'd want to show but for certain types of music/albums it might be best to show album artist. for example i am listening to some classical (chopin) and i'd like to see a bio of chopin (album artist) instead of the pianist (artist) playing chopin? i guess in this case "composer" would work too, but album artist is a bit more universal.
I'll take a look and see if i can suggest any other improvements, but bravo with your progress!
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i've added a selector for Artist or Composer as well a few other minor tweaks and fixes
http://www.mediafire.com/?wygtqffndfg
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The Composer tab is greyed out, and not selectable even when there is a composer in the ID3 tag. Is it also possible to also have the Album Artist as a selectable option, for instances where there are more than one composers for an album and you would like the primary album artist to display?
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i'm guessing you opened the screen by clicking on the artist name link from the right sidebar. I had intentionally greyed out because a specific artist is being clicked but i've changed that now
http://www.mediafire.com/?jjzmgozxhad
I need time to think about how i'll improve this for handling multiple composers or even multiple artists - i'll probably just make Artist show a drop-down so you can choose an individual artist, album artist or any of the composers
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Actually the artist info opens up automatically in a separate tab for me, whenever i play an album for example, this tab is refreshed with the current playing track. The composer tab is still greyed out using this method.
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ah yes, i forgot about that - hopefully now corrected.
I've also made the change for multiple artist handling - you can now select any of the individual artists, the album artist or any of the composers
but only have very limited time to test so suggest you keep the current version handy in case there is something i overlooked
http://www.mediafire.com/?jiummznmw2n
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it's working now. i like the direction this is taking!
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a few more tweaks and minor improvements:
http://www.mediafire.com/?xoawdajmdik
one thing i've seen other players do is support a news feed for the artist eg. search hypem or google news. Personally i'm not sure thats really useful but if anyone thinks it would be let me know. I guess i also want to avoid cluttering the screen as well