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But I like the panes over all. They give me the possibility to find every track in a minimum of time. With a large library this is not possible within the tree. The tree just never ends. So you scroll and scroll and scroll and...
Amen. At it's height, my library was closing in on 5,000 songs. I've heard reports of exponentially larger libraries from some of the folks around here. That's not just a tree, folks, that's the frikkin Yggdrasil!
Chop down the tree!! Give me stylishly-moving buttons on the left, not that same old "tree-of-nodes" setup. Panes on the top right, list on the bottom right, properties on the bottom left, just like it is now (floatable and hidable), and then...
... replace the tree with a smaller
muy pretty miniature Hairstyle in the top left!!!
Tree-And-Node is
so 20th Century, anyway. And don't forget, MC's drawin' itself these days, aye?
While I'm on a roll, eliminate the
Start and
Playing Now "nodes" altogether, default it to start in the library and make some kind of... button... that...
...causes the entire Mega-Me to transition into the Playing Now screen. 3-D transitions like a rotating cube, polygon or plane, sweet stuff like that. Heck, you could even float the Playing Now "side" so that you can see it at the same time as the Library, Devices TV, Playlists and Radio "side". (hrmm, that side needs a better name,
)
And don't get me started on my hyper-realistic mind-blowing futuristic idea for the right-click context menu. It's a good one too!
-kurt
(thanks for listening, it's not often i have the 'net at home, hehehe)
Listening to: 'Vampires' from 'Awake' by 'Godsmack' on Media Center 9.1