I know that a lot of people use "thumbnail" views, but I still prefer "List/Detail" views, and I have some feedback in this area.
I use "Group by Album" to group the albums and display them in order to ascending year. MC14 no longer "bolds" the Album/Artist title above each album like MC12 and 13 did, which makes this "main" information lose the "punch" that it previously had. Also, in MC14 the album year displayed over on the right uses a smaller font for some reason, making it look a little odd. Putting it on the far right already separates it from the Album/Artist title, so I'm not sure I see the need to also make it a smaller font. It just looks too small and off to the side to me. I think it should either be the same font size as the Album/Artist title, or if it's going to be small, maybe it should be closer to the other text.
My personal preference for the "Group by Album" (by date) info would be to have the Album name bold-ed, then the "by Artist" non bold-ed, then some space or a dash and the year, also non-bold-ed. All the text would be the same size font. I wouldn't mind if the year was closer to the other info as well.
In other words, it currently looks like this:
Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam Ant 1980
I think it would look better like this:
Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam Ant - 1980
The Album name is separated from the artist nicely due to the bold album title, but all the info is in one spot.
Thanks for any feedback on this,
Larry