Another big thought - (I'm on a roll).
I thought the new library method did this but it doesn't.
Right now: say you have 3 fields to sort by:
year artist album
If you click on artist and choose say aaliyah then it'd still leave the year displaying all the values possible and only filter down the right columns.
It would be soooo nice if there was a button or checkbox we could select (something in clear visible display that is easy to toggle) that would make it also filter down the fields to the left as well as the ones on the right.
That way we wouldn't need to have two seperate views to do this:
Year/Artist/Album
Artist/Year/Album
We could bounce around the fields selecting and deselecting values to kind of narrow down a search using the fields available - we wouldn't have to like set up views for each way we want to narrow it down.
I'm starting to get used to the new method and the ability to do the above would really make it a VERY powerful method of narrowing down searches.
I prefer GUI based searches where I can be selecting and deselecting values quickly and easily to modify the search results - I find it a LOT easier than entering long search strings.
If the above was done then I could simply create a view scheme like this:
Year/Genre/Artist/Album/File Type
and then could perform searches by simply selecting the appropriate values I wanted for any field. It would turn the new method into a visual search tool where u can see all the possible values and select one rather than the old method of searching by entering strings.
It'd be what I've wanted since the day I started using MJ - I dont like doing searches by entering long strings of text and trying to remember keywords - I'd much rather this approach.
If you get what I mean I think you'll realise how powerful a search tool this could make it rather than just being a browsing tool. People could just make a view scheme called: Search with all the fields they usually search by in it then use that every time.
Oh pretty please do it!!
And everyone - if you get what I mean and realise how GORGEOUS it would be then please make a lot of noise so we get it
Pretty please