This needs a thread of its own Alex :)
Your findings would resound with many.
Matt,
Did you really remove the "Advanced" branch or did it happen only on my PC?
As an alternative, make each window view completely independent. If I have 2 split views, one can be audio and the other, say, documents. Search would be done only on the "active" window. If I search the top view, the other is unaffected. This seems important from a usability standpoint. For me, having all windows captive to all searches was much more confusing than the global thing. Similarly, if I have 3 views and the bottom one is playing now, it always stays like that until I actively change it. Much less disorienting.
I totally agee that ctrl+f should be linked to the current media mode rather than "all and other"
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item and do Edit > Add View Scheme...
As for Ctrl+F, the debate internally leaned towards making it not switch the view (Ctrl+F in Explorer doesn't jump to Google) or jumping to a special search view.
A middle ground may be to not jump if you're in a library root view, but jump to "All Media" if you're somewhere else.
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item and do Edit > Add View Scheme...I don't quite understand this. What should I pick?
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item and do Edit > Add View Scheme...this is not working here. unless I misunderstand what you mean by "non-library item". If I select "start", or "services" then do Edit>Add view scheme" the new view scheme is created as a child of the "All and Other" group, not as a root scheme??
As for Ctrl+F, the debate internally leaned towards making it not switch the view (Ctrl+F in Explorer doesn't jump to Google) or jumping to a special search view.Sounds OK. would need to play with it to know for sure though.
A middle ground may be to not jump if you're in a library root view, but jump to "All Media" if you're somewhere else.
Would it be possible to sort by artist under Album view?
Theres a subtle difference between this and Artist view, which
combines albums for each artist... but it's still a view I'd like...
Unless of course I'm missing something and it's already there :-)
Does "All and other" not seem a bit strange to anyone?It was on my bug list for a mention next time it gets posted. Removed now that you've mentioned it here.
Usually All is fairly encompassing, so how can there be an other?
Or is this a stopgap soloution?
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item and do Edit > Add View Scheme...
5. Changed: Removed "All & Other" from the tree.
Generally it is much better now.
I managed to build my favourite "all album" view scheme that shows the album images and documents besides the music files:
(http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/aerosmith.jpg)
Click to enlarge. (http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/aerosmith.png)
I can now show all albums sorted and labeled by "Artist - Album". The view itself is fine, but opening it is extremely slow. It takes over 30 seconds before the view can be used. The view has 38547 files.
Is there anything that can be done to make it faster?
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item and do Edit > Add View Scheme...
This still works for me:
You can create root schemes now in 11.1. Pick a non-library item ("Start" for example) and do Edit > Add View Scheme... from the menu.
**, MC is changing so fast that if one doesn't stop by the forums everyday, it is difficult to make sense of the new features. I don't know if the new design is helping new users (probably), but it is taking time from the old ones to get used to it, that's for sure. I still miss the document view, as I use MC on a laptop basically as an explorer replacement to browse pdf files.Didn't Matt say Documents would appear if you created it or had it already ?
Import a Word file in the latest build of MC and you will have the documents branch back on the tree.
It will already be there if you had previously imported documents.
I totally agee that ctrl+f should be linked to the current media mode rather than "all and other" I'm still hanging out for the ability to create our own "all and other" nodes.
...I'm digging the new MC (honestly, I think it's awesome, except that it's crashing twice a day, but beta MC builds always seem to be crash-prone on my PC, so I'm not sweating it right now) ....Please check the FAQ on this board for possible reasons for crashes. There are many.
It looks like with the latest build (11.1.89) we no longer have any kind of "All Media" (or "all and other") views available anywhere, much less in a convenient place on the tree. We do have the option of adding our own view schemes, but it doesn't seem like "All Media" is a view scheme that can be added (although I might just not understand how to use the Add Scheme screen effectively). That doesn't seem right ... Am I missing something?try going to the playing now view.
try going to the playing now view.
now click on "edit > add view scheme" (from MC's main toolbar)
now you have a blank canvas. when you've finished setting it up and click OK to save, the view scheme will be placed on the tree root. If you like all media, just call it that and leave step 4 empty. tadaaaa :)
9. NEW: Added support for "Details" list of grouped items for detailed artist, album, genre, etc. lists. (experiment -- may not remain)
Not to sound stupid, But what exactly is this?
It lets you view groupings (genres, artists, albums) as list entries just like you would with tracks.
To try it:
Click "Audio" in the tree > Pick "Albums" from the "Audio" drop list at the top left of the view > Click the "Audio" drop list again and choose Options > Details
10. Changed: Tuned tile bordering to provide a larger image.
11. Changed: Reduced the text size of the labels on tiles.
Thanks so much David.
This should be fixed in a build of MC 11.1 going up in an hour or so.
And talk about a stress-test --- 270,000 tracks is a new record ;)
Best,
-Matt
(p.s. the calculated view scheme at the root of audio is really hurting performance -- we'll see if we can tune it on our end, but you may be better off using non-calculated fields with such a huge library)
(http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/fieldaaaa.png)
and added it to my view scheme:
(http://www.adart.fi/mc/pix/myalbums.png)
I can now show all albums sorted and labeled by "Artist - Album". The view itself is fine, but opening it is extremely slow. It takes over 30 seconds before the view can be used. The view has 38547 files.
Is there anything that can be done to make it faster?
I can now show all albums sorted and labeled by "Artist - Album". The view itself is fine, but opening it is extremely slow. It takes over 30 seconds before the view can be used. The view has 38547 files.
11.1.92 (01/03/06)
1. Optimized: Improved the speed of calculated template-style fields.