Hi
i've been testing 2 or 3 beta versions and one of the reasons to change from the first one was that i read that Date Imported was added. I thougt that was great, 'cause it's something that i do manually with my music.
I think that for you take a better image of what i want to say i'll explain you my basic organization.
Basically i make 3 playlists groups:
Genres: that i try to keep rather basic (rock, reggae, hardcore, dance, rap, etc.)
Lp's Completes and Songs (Basically, you've done this right now, but as i've some uncompleted lp's that for me are complted i use this playlist too. But yours work rather OK)
And third and more important now
Novelties: Here i set playlists for year/month (news 2002-10, news 2002-09, news 2002-08, etc.).
When i import some music (almost all the days i've some new music) i mark the genre, if it's lp or song and what month i've imported(almost always downloaded). In this way i think that i've enough control to make some other playlists and smartlists.
Now as you've added date imported i must not use that novelty playlist 'cause i've a field with the date imported, but... i don't find any use to this way of display the date imported.
How can i controll what month i imported? Have i to calculate what day was 16 days ago?. Maybe this is not so hard, NOW!, but what will happen in a year when i want to listen songs that i imported 6 months ago?. I think that with this display i'll have to follow doin things in my way.
I'll show an example of smart list using novelties:
~t=180 playlist=genre (the one/s i want to chose), playlist= novelties 2002-10, novelties 2002-09 (to listen only the most recent stuff)
Try to do the same with Date imported!!!
~t=180 playlist=genre (the one/s i want to chose), date imported=
and right now, it's only imported beginning 16 days ago!!
Imagine that it was displayed year/month?
Can't you make the display for date, in fact i'll only need year and month (preferibly in this order 'cause make it easy to keep the sort order). As maybe some people want to know even the hour and minutes and seconds ?, you could give us the possibility to choose with view we want: year/month, or year/month/day, or year/month/day/hh, or the one that it's now
There's other thing about this that i consider important:
i make view schemes with these playlists (so i can see the album view). Have you tried to make a view scheme with Date Imported?. No, better don't do it, you'll get a lot of dates (imagine in one year!). If you set the display in year/month looking through it it's rather easy.
Here i show you 2 captures, one with year/month view
and the other with the date imported view
What do you think?
Sorry if i can't explain well certain things, but english is not my language. Maybe this is the motive to so long post, i want to let clear what i want to say