A list view would be more pixel efficient for longer album and artist names

Bug #1607811 reported by Einar Mostad
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Ubuntu Music App
Triaged
Wishlist
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Ubuntu UX
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Bug Description

The album and artist views look stunning, but I miss a list view as well. On the desktop, I prefer using a list view to be able to get much more information into the available screen space and to easier find the music I want to play. The album art is shown in the playing now area anyway.

For longer album names and artist names, a list view also makes it possible to see more, whereas an album or artist view with cover art will only have so much space (preferably more than now [https://bugs.launchpad.net/music-app/+bug/1607803], but still a limited amount of space.)

With lots of albums, a list view makes it much easier to find fast what I am looking for. I have opted for lists of artists and albums in Rhythmbox (genres doesn't make much sense when you have more than a couple of albums in a genre, and/or there is both a Norwegian and English ID3 genre tag that means the same, non of which covers all the albums I have got in that genre).

I would have to swipe through a lot of albums in the album view to get to Zemlinsky's symphonies, but with a list view, I could just type Z with focus on the Album names list, and I would see all my albums starting with Z in alphabetical order. I prefer this to swiping/scrolling forever through 100+ GBs of music. (A pity that the M10 only takes 64 GB on the SD card. It's half of what I need for my music.)

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Einar Mostad (einarmostad) wrote :
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Victor Thompson (vthompson) wrote :

Hi Einar, thanks for taking the time to file this request! I've added the Design Team to this report. Being able to toggle the app somehow to switch to a listview driven UI could be a nice feature for some users.

Changed in music-app:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Einar Mostad (einarmostad) wrote :

Thanks! :-)

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