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Title: V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: JimH on June 10, 2004, 08:16:30 am
In the 11.0.005 release thread, Matt said:

16. NEW: Added new "Tiles" list mode, which shows context for data files. (still under construction for other data types)

PLEASE NOTE -- This isn't finished.

Comments and suggestions are welcome.

(http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/thumbnails/mc11tile.jpg)

Bigger image:
http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/mc11tile.jpg (http://www.jriver.com/~jriver/misc/mc11tile.jpg)
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: Deivit on June 10, 2004, 09:16:46 am
I wanted to ask for more flexibility in customizing the album thumbnail view for music files. Perhaps this tile view could be a start if it could be converted to show not only single files but albums grouped?
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: bennyd on June 10, 2004, 09:52:09 am
And to be able to choose which fields are gonna be shown.
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: pank2002 on June 10, 2004, 10:00:41 am
I wanted to ask for more flexibility in customizing the album thumbnail view for music files. Perhaps this tile view ccould be a start if it could be converted to show not only single files but albums grouped?

yes, I would like this too.  
Please create a view schreme with the coverart on the left and detailed view of the tracks next to it.
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: GHammer on June 10, 2004, 10:05:58 am
I wanted to ask for more flexibility in customizing the album thumbnail view for music files. Perhaps this tile view ccould be a start if it could be converted to show not only single files but albums grouped?

yes, I would like this too.  
Please create a view schreme with the coverart on the left and detailed view of the tracks next to it.
That would be cool.
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: IlPadrino on June 10, 2004, 12:43:26 pm
This feature will become *extremely* useful if we're able to customize the tile layout.  I suggest a simple XML configuration file - nothing nearly as fancy as the skins.  Just something that lets us put datatbase objects in table-like specified rows/columns (including spans) and some markup to specify font, size, color, margin, etc.

For example, the current tile gives no margin between the thumbnail and the text - it looks fine for the icons, but real thumbnails look strange.
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: cascius on June 10, 2004, 04:05:12 pm
This looks pretty cool. Was it inspired by the mockup screenshot i made? :P

-Cascius
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: Valissystem on June 10, 2004, 05:40:41 pm
This looks good. It would be good if some sort of display like this (with thumbnail image summaries information etc.) could be also shown in a pane of the Action Window and is contexturally related to what ever is sellected within the list panes etc. I find that I often want a tidier more selective collection of information, not to edit tags  when I am looking for something.

Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: CASELOGIC on June 10, 2004, 06:46:09 pm
I hope this works for single albums! :)
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: Cindy_B on June 10, 2004, 08:34:08 pm
And to be able to choose which fields are gonna be shown.

Yes, yes. yes.....  I believe the current setup is also cropping text within fields.    Can we have tiles text go full length?
Title: Re:V11 -- New Tile View
Post by: RhinoBanga on June 11, 2004, 12:40:33 am
This looks pretty cool. Was it inspired by the mockup screenshot i made? :P

-Cascius

Or maybe AlbumView which has had grouped album tiles for nearly two years now.