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kr4

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Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« on: October 14, 2017, 05:10:00 pm »

This has come up before but I have not seen a usable solution.  (I am sure I will be quickly corrected if I am wrong about that.)
Particularly with classical titles, the single line display limit truncates the titles, often to the extent of making them useless to distinguish among different albums.  Particularly if one adds a little spacing to the thumbnails, there is ample room for multiple lines of text and even with simple crude  wrapping, a much more communicative display is possible.  Recognition of separators (;) would be even better.

Any chance of something happening here, for those of us who are not capable of programming it.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2017, 05:22:42 pm »

It would *definitely* be nice if this were an included part of Standard View and possibly Theater View.  A while back I worked up a solution to this that works pretty well.  Check out this thread and look at the screen shot in the first post:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105744.0

If that's what you are looking for, you can probably follow the directions I gave to set this up for yourself.

Good luck.

Brian.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2017, 05:27:12 pm »

Interestingly, Panel now wraps thumbnail text, although it is just one tag, not multiple ones like in standard views. But with the right hierarchy it looks pretty good.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2017, 05:36:42 pm »

Mebbe but I do not use Panel;  I use the computer monitor on which MC resides.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2017, 05:39:36 pm »

A while back I worked up a solution to this that works pretty well.  Check out this thread and look at the screen shot in the first post:

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=105744.0

If that's what you are looking for, you can probably follow the directions I gave to set this up for yourself.
Yeah.  I saw it and it looks fine but, as I said, the programming of it is beyond me.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2017, 06:04:36 pm »

Mebbe but I do not use Panel;  I use the computer monitor on which MC resides.

You can use Panel on the same computer as MC.  In your browser just type

localhost:52199        or whatever port you have open for Media Network

Under Settings (the little gear) make sure it says Player.

It may or not be what your want. I was just pointing out that they are wrapping the text in the new interface.

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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2017, 06:36:02 pm »

You can use Panel on the same computer as MC.  In your browser just type

localhost:52199        or whatever port you have open for Media Network

Under Settings (the little gear) make sure it says Player.

It may or not be what your want. I was just pointing out that they are wrapping the text in the new interface.
Thanks.  I have tried Panel on my iPad and it is OK but not the kind of UI I prefer.  OTOH, if they can do it there, they can do it anywhere!
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2017, 06:44:18 pm »

Continue looking.  It's changing with each release.
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Re: Feature Request: Multiline Titles for Album View
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2017, 06:52:40 pm »

Continue looking.  It's changing with each release.
Cool. 8)
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