How about a hybrid display option?
Posted in xn--kfs74mzzid01b.com edit by webmaster on January 7th, 2009
--jaga
upon further thought, maybe there could be a special file, such as viewmode.txt that could contain either 'largeicons', 'smallicons', or 'list' that could determine the default display of the folder.
--jaga
the default behaviour that i would like, is stay in the current mode unless a folder.jpg is seen within a directory of the current-working-directory.
it would only take me about five minutes to populate my xbox with preference files - most of my stuff is auto-generated.
would love to see it implemented in xbmc sooooon.. http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/forums/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif
from bugs.txt:
added: playlist windows, repeat and repeat one button
added: settings my music, option to disable playlist in songs window
added: settings my music, option to disable repeat in my music windows
added: my music songs, option to auto switch between list and thumb control disabled by
default
directory should not contain files. if one folder of the directory
has a thumbnail, view is switched to thumbs control else the list
control is used.
i have yet to test, but thanks again to bobbin007!.
*first seperate the icon modes from the view menu/toggle and move it to settings (by that i mean the choice between large and small). in fact, it could be either in general settings or both in video and audio settings. that would allow a user to specify large icons for music and small for video.
*next change the view menu/toggle to have the following three choices: icon mode, list mode, or smart.
icon and list would work as expected (with icon mode respecting the size choice from settings), and smart mode would follow the logic to use listmode if no folders are contained in the current folder, and icon mode if folders are present in the current folder. what do you think? i really wonder what the dev's think about this, since none have chimed in yet.
also i do stronly agree with kraqh3d that songs and movies is really confusing, when in fact it should be files.
--jaga
i have mp3 in artist\album\*.mp3 form, and would love:
1) artist level in list form
2) album level in icon form (using folder.jpg underneath)
3) *.mp3 level in list form again
i.e. stay in currently selected mode (i.e. list), unless a folder.jpg is seen underneath, then goto icon mode.
rocky
icons for folder with subfolders, list mode for everything else.
heh, i copied that from the above post by illsley. :lol:
burriko had a great logic suggestion in #xbmc:
icons for folder with subfolders, list mode for everything else.
updated becuase i'm a dumbass.
auto switch to list if no subfolders found sounds quite easy, and a good workaround.
<!-- a nice album view -->
<folder>
<view>list</view>
<id3>yes</id3>
<sort>track</sort>
<tags>
<tag>track</tag>
<tag>title</tag>
<tag>length</tag>
</tags>
</folder>
<!-- a nice directory of albums view -->
<folder>
<view>largeicons</view>
<id3/>
<sort>name</sort>
<tags/>
</folder>
<!-- for a large folder of mixed music -->
<folder>
<view>list</view>
<id3>yes</id3>
<sort>name</sort>
<tags>
<tag>artist</tag>
<tag>title</tag>
<tag>length</tag>
</tags>
</folder>
i think i'm going to start a poll about this, because i'm really interested in what everyone feels is the best solution.
--jaga
--jaga
icons for folders containing subfolders. listview for folders not containing subfolders. :)
keep up the great work!!
finally i can start enjoying my xbmc... can't say i miss any functions right now!
thanx again!
so you just have a default.prf file sitting somewhere, and it is used for any folder that does not have its own. when you change a setting for a folder, the local folder.prf file gets updated / created.
easy isn't it ?
this would solve half of the problem, allowing list display of the individual tracks of an album. however it doesn't solve the problem of top-level viewing. with a few hundred folders at top-level, this really needs to be in list view.
also, the "switch view" button is kinda confusing. what's called "songs" and "movies" should really just be called "files." its really showing the filesystem.
---start of file ---
view=list
tag=track,title,time
sort=name
id3=yes
---end of file ---
which for would great for the standard 'album' folder.
or, for a folder with a mp3's from a number of artists:
---start of file---
view=list
tag=artist,title,time
sort=name
id3=yes
---end of file ---
or, for a folder containing only/mostly* folders:
--start of file---
view=largeicons
tag=artist,title,time
sort=name
id3=yes
---end of file---
in this case, if any mp3's were found it would still show them in large icon format, but you could specify the id3 tag to be shown.
finally, say you have a folder containing over 200 mp3's. as we all know, entering this folder can take a long time because xbmc tries to parse the id3 of each file. so if you use:
---start of file---
view=list
tag=artist,title,time
sort=name
id3=no
---end of file---
xbmc would know not to parse id3 tags (making the tag line useless).
now, the --- ---- tags are just for clarification here, and if the devs prefer a more xmlly style, that's cool too. but, afaik, this could please all the people all of the time. this could also work for my movies, and my pictures with them ignoring the data that they don't have (id3 and tag).
how about it dev's, give us the power to control our layout per folder.
--jaga
1) artist level in list form
2) album level in icon form (using folder.jpg underneath)
3) *.mp3 level in list form again
dido
imho it's more user friendly if you can update the local settings using the gui, of course. maybe it's time to add adv. per folder settings to the gui ? :)
but at least it could update the view mode setting (list / icons / big icons) automagically, since it looks like it's the most requested feature.
--jaga
i'm looking forward to see something in the xbmc!
if anyone here at all are planing to code something, do it and let us see something in the near future.. :-)
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