First Sorry for my poor english.
I think the [Media Sub Type] field is very good. I have tried others fields in MC11 (and <) but sometimes i was blocked. I agree with all posts about this [Media Sub Type]. This field must be customized. Each person have some differents types of files like :
- Kids Films
- Kids TV Shows
- Live Entertainment
- Video Clip
- Live
- Shorts Films
- Series
- family videos
- Advertising
...
For each item the view (pane or not) can (or must) be different, for example series needs "saison", films needs genre, personal video need "people/events/place" ...
Two Ideas :
1 - Why not a pre-configured view for Known [Media sub type] ?
2 - Why not import informations from web Site for Known [Media sub type] like film (dvd picture, name, genre, actors, productors ...), video clip (year, name, genre, info artists ...), series, dvd ...
If those features exist, for each user value in this field you can attach a [Known type], for example "dvd film" or "kid film" or "Old film" will be attach with "Film" to have the same default view and use the same web site for importing informations.
This second point is THE missing feature in your software, I use j.river media center & jukebox for a long time, it's always the best for all his features and performances.
I talk about videos but it's the same for audio with :
- Kids music
- Kids audio book
- Radio talk
- fun
For Photos is certainly the same thing.
Best Regards and congratulations for this MediaCenter