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Title: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 05, 2010, 09:56:20 am

I have a category called "Artist" where it shows each individual Artist once.  I can see the individual albums "fanned" beneath it.  When I double-click on the artist, I want it to expand to show the albums horizontally (new screen?) in the same format.  Instead, it shows this vertical list at the bottom of the screen with song list.  I don't want that.  How do get it to show it differently?  I wish I could attach a picture of this. 

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 09, 2010, 03:39:51 pm

Anyone?

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: Alex B on September 09, 2010, 05:12:19 pm

It works for me in MC15 (and worked already in MC13). You may need to set the view scheme categories as:

Album Artist (auto)
Album

I attached two screenshots.

See also my recent reply and more screenshots here: http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=59533.msg402197#msg402197

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Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 09, 2010, 08:52:05 pm

That was it.  Thanks a lot.

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 09, 2010, 09:40:38 pm

Well, that one works, but in another case I want the same thing but it's not working.  I'm doing something wrong, but not sure what.  I want to show the Artist (fanned) and when I double-click I want to show the individual albums for the artist with the album name.  But it's showing the artist name again listed under each album.  Not sure why, must be something simple.  I'll try to post a pic when I figure out how.

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: Alex B on September 10, 2010, 02:46:26 am

See the first screenshot above. What do have in Thumbnails > Text: in your view settings?

Text: [Name] is supposed to always show the name of the current category.

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 10, 2010, 03:12:44 pm

Right, but in your example above, you want to show the Album Artist on teh first set of thumbnails because it's showing the Artist.  But when you click the Artist to show the individual albums, you want the album names.  But there no way to change the text to Album just for the second set of thumbnails.  It affects the artist list too. For Artist Album the text should be "Artist Album", but for Album, the text should be "Album".  How to differentiate?

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: Alex B on September 10, 2010, 03:18:42 pm

Text: [Name] changes it automatically.

Title: Re: Showing albums as thumbnails instead of "list"
Post by: gt93grad on September 10, 2010, 03:36:49 pm

Yep, I see now.  Thanks for the help on that.  Big help. That's been driving me nuts.