[I received this in e-mail -- JimH]
I am loving JRiver Media Center. It is very nice software and is quite useful for managing my movies, TV shows and music collection.
I've compiled a list of suggestions that I feel would improve the user experience. Here they are:
Setting the cover art for a series shouldn't set the cover art for all episodes of that series (Hellsing Ultimate as example, has individual covers for each OVA release which were all overridden when I used the Cover Art->Get from Internet feature to get the cover art for the series as a whole.)
-> When doing so, the prompt isn't very descriptive of what's going to happen
-> Shouldn't local covers always over-ride?
When searching for "cover art from internet", option should exist to edit the initial query that was used, just like you can when doing it for movies.
Shortcut GUI should be created to allow easy mapping of keys to a function/command rather than the Custom Resources\Resource.xml approach. Just a simple external program with a GUI that reads in this Resource.xml file and allows easy key mapping and re-writes to the file would suffice.
In the "Get Movie & TV Info" dialog (and any others where this could also apply), for the top text box, when it is currently unselected/unfocused and the user goes to click and drag a new selection, currently upon mouse down the entire text box text is highlighted. This makes it difficult to quickly edit out a suffix or any unwanted text for quick deletion. Instead of selecting the whole text box upon mouse-down, it should be done upon a full click (mouse-down & mouse-up) and only then if a new text selection hasn't been made.
The "Critic Rating" field should be more representative of what it actually is -- an IMDb rating. A field called "IMDb Rating" would be better.
Fields should be extensible, to allow for the addition of future information (a new service's rating, for example). Fields like rotten_tomatoes_rating and other data could then be more easily retrieved via lookup services and added to the tag db.
When viewing tags for a media item, some tags (depending on whether viewing TV shows, movies or music) should take priority and be displayed at the top (rather than displaying them all alphabetically).
When double-clicking or selecting and pressing <enter> on a series, playing should resume from the last episode played and the position within it. (Currently it starts again from the first video in the series).
Under the "Video" section of the left menu, the purple icons for each Library View should be customizable, and perhaps default to something more representative of the type. (Here's an example of my Windows favourite links icons:
http://i.imgur.com/EtcSC8y.png)
I can keep taking note of features and functionality that I feel could be tweaked and adjusted to improve user experience if you would like.
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