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New Stacked Album Art Display

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dcwebman:
OK, my 2 cents. I love the idea but not sure about the spiral look. I think it's informative that there is more than one album but don't necessarily need to know exactly how many. Perhaps a cascade look like in most programs set to a maximum number that would fit might look better.

I can't wait to try this it at home on the few artists that I have many albums of to see what happens to those spirals when they hit the top left edge.  :)

Alex B:
Actually, I think the spiral stack is a great idea for [Artist] or [Album Artist (auto)] based view.

It is not so great for [Album] or my calculated [Album Artist (auto)] - [Album] view because no stacks exist (unless the individual tracks have various cover art images) and there is a lot of wasted space.

As always, a user selectable option would probably make everybody happy.

I captured some additional 140 vs. 141 screenshots, but I don't have time to process them now. I'll try to add them later.

jgreen:
I love this idea, including the spiral.  At first I thought that cascading tiles would be better, much as wombat suggests.  But at tile size it really wouldn't show up, and would quickly march off the page with large stacks.

I can see that it might appear cluttered in album views, while not necessarily adding much info, but in images I believe it adds a lot.  Most of us have our album info committed to memory by now, so we're less apt to explore via album art, IMO.  But with images, seeing whether a stack is populated is helpful.  I would make a couple of suggestions:

1.  Currently mouse hover-over sets the stack in motion.  Good.  But left-click should stop the motion on any selected album/image.

2.  An image (or album, etc) selected via this method should be individually drag-and-dropable.  Currently the whole stack goes into PN, which is fine.  But what if cntrl-left-click would drag an individual album selected via #1?

park:
Why is it that some of the tiles never show album art, even if the files have album art.  Hovering the mouse over it doesnt seem to do anyhting either. But sometimes, leaving the view and then coming back seems to make some of the tiles find the art.

LonWar:
I like the new look.... While you guys are changing so,e of the looks.... How about bringing back the lil coverart that was on all the details lines?

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