07-20-2018, 12:06 PM
It would be excellent to be able to customise the music display. I have a mixed collection: quite a lot of rock, quite a lot of classical, some jazz. What I would love Moode to be able to do is have the music display customisable, so that I could load a "UI list" in a similar way to loading a playlist. The UI list would define what columns should be displayed and what filter should be applied. For each column visible in the UI there would be a dropdown so you could select the appropriate MPD tag, and you have the filter at the top. Perhaps the filter could be made a bit more flexible to allow selection of multiple genres. There would be a button for "save current UI settings as UI list". Maybe a "default UI" button might be helpful in case people mess up their UI. This would be completely customisable, allow for people who use their tags in different ways to categorise their music, and also reasonably simple (for the user - I'm not suggesting it's trivial to code!)
Then I could filter on the Classical genre tag and set up the columns to be Composer and Album, and save that as my Classical UI list, and I could filter on "everything except Classical" and set up the columns to be Artist and Album. Those who prefer to use the Name tag for Composition might want to set their Classical UI list to have Composer and Name columns.
It would also allow other completely different uses, perhaps custom UI lists to help with themed party playlists.
Then I could filter on the Classical genre tag and set up the columns to be Composer and Album, and save that as my Classical UI list, and I could filter on "everything except Classical" and set up the columns to be Artist and Album. Those who prefer to use the Name tag for Composition might want to set their Classical UI list to have Composer and Name columns.
It would also allow other completely different uses, perhaps custom UI lists to help with themed party playlists.
