[dash] Carousel in music scope should group songs by album
Bug #1237970 reported by
Michael Zanetti
This bug affects 3 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu UX |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
|
Mike Nagle | ||
| Unity Media Scanner Scope |
Won't Fix
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Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| unity8 (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The carousel in the music scope shows all songs which makes it hardly usable and not as good looking as it should. For example the first ~15 entries are the same image, then the next ~15 entries are the same again etc. Given that we only write the title information to the currently selected item, it's really cumbersome to find a particular song anyways. It would look better and be easier to use if it would group items by album, and clicking on an item plays the whole album. Once the music app launches it's easy to switch to a certain song inside this album.
Design solution
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Marking this as Won't Fix as the latest designs for the Music scope don't use this carousel anymore
| description: | updated |
| Changed in unity8: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
Revision history for this message
| James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in unity-scope-mediascanner: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| tags: | added: scopes-s |
| Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Mike Nagle (mikenagle) |
| summary: |
- Carousel in music scope should group songs by album + [dash] Carousel in music scope should group songs by album |
| Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in ubuntu-ux: | |
| status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
| description: | updated |
| Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| no longer affects: | unity8 |
Revision history for this message
| Michael Zanetti (mzanetti) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity8 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Won't Fix |
| Changed in unity-scope-mediascanner: | |
| status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
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This really needs support from the media scanner to do properly, and we've punted doing that for 13.10.
The Lucene++ library used by the media scanner doesn't include the extensions to handle result grouping, which would be needed to handle this kind of thing efficiently.
The album browsing in the music app is implemented by dumping the entire media scanner index and building a sqlite database out of the data, which is a hack (doesn't handle index changes, for instance).
We will look at implementing this properly, but it will have to wait until after the release.