Ubuntu Music App

[Music app] Should "Recent" just say "Albums"

Bug #1240335 reported by Victor Thompson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu Music App
Fix Released
Low
Victor Thompson
Ubuntu UX
Fix Released
Low
Jouni Helminen

Bug Description

Design team, we still won't have a proper "Recent" list. In all likelihood, it will still be a list of albums. We still need to think through how we track recent items.

Should "Recent" be replaced with "Albums" or "All Albums" or other to avoid confusion? I might be able to sort so it reflects recently added albums... if that helps a labeling decision.

Related branches

lp://staging/~vthompson/music-app/recent-items
Andrew Hayzen: Approve
Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot: Approve (continuous-integration)
Diff: 350 lines (+176/-23)
6 files modified
LibraryListModel.qml (+19/-0)
MusicAlbums.qml (+4/-0)
MusicPlaylists.qml (+5/-2)
MusicStart.qml (+65/-20)
meta-database.js (+75/-1)
music-app.qml (+8/-0)
Victor Thompson (vthompson)
Changed in music-app:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
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Lisette Slegers (lisette-slegers) wrote :

Copied from the UX spec https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/12ZvFDfH-7zjk-seTFpP205yOuUNi9ticEkvmQFi_bTY/edit#heading=h.d9ebl8ngc6q

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Recent: the last n albums that were played or added.

An album appears only once in the list. Example:
* User starts using the music app and adds music from albums A, B, C
** Recent tab shows albums C, B, A
* User plays album A
** Recent tab shows albums A, C, B
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So show last n albums that the user has played songs of, or the last n added albums if there are no or not enough played albums. Let's say n = 10 or 15.

Is this possible? It would be great if we could add playlists to this list in the future.

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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

What I'm saying is that the list is currently just an alphabetical list of all albums. We won't have time to do tracking of the recently played items for 13.10. Should the item above the horizontal list still say "Recent" if it's just an alphabetical list of albums? Since the mediascanner adds the content, we don't know what's the most recently added or anything else to really sort by. I'm just wondering if saying "Recent" is misleading.

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Lisette Slegers (lisette-slegers) wrote :

Simply renaming 'Recent' to 'Albums' is not a good solution, because with 2 identical ways to view albums, the app's information architecture becomes very confusing for users. Also, the horizontal list is not a good solution if there are a large number of items in the list.

Until we can show recent, we should:

* Kill the Music tab
* Users now land in the Albums tab
* Change order of the tabs to: Albums › Artists › Playlists › Genres › Songs ›
* The Genres tab looks similar to Playlists: a list of album stacks
* Each album stack genre leads to a single genre (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1238801)

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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

Right now changing Songs to Genres and changing the way the list of genres is presented to the user sounds like a bit too much to work around this issue. I'll get a first crack at the tracking recent albums/playlists soon.

Revision history for this message
Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:music-app at revision 229, scheduled for release in music-app, milestone 1.0

Changed in music-app:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Victor Thompson (vthompson)
Changed in music-app:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Olga Kemmet (olga-kemmet)
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)
John Lea (johnlea)
summary: - [Music app] [Design] Should "Recent" just say "Albums"
+ [Music app] Should "Recent" just say "Albums"
Changed in ubuntu-ux:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Victor Thompson (vthompson)
Changed in music-app:
assignee: nobody → Victor Thompson (vthompson)
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