Add `group` filed to `labels` table?

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 01/10/2010 01:07 AM, Casey Link wrote:
>> It is quite easy to get hundreds of different labels as you keep using
>> Amarok for a long time. Its not bad thing as thats why they are created for,
>> but browsing them can became too complicated.
>>
>> having group field could help dealing with it. Lets say labels sad, happy,
>> angry, nice would became members of mood group, slow, fast - speed etc.
> 
> Yes, it's quite a fine idea until you use Amarok for a longer time, it
> would be quite easy to get hundreds of different groups. How are you
> to browse them? You'll want your groups to have sub groups, and sub
> sub groups. Not to mention what happens if you want a tag to go into
> multiple groups? The point of tags (read: amarok's labels) is to break
> out of meaningless category hierarchies. There's an inconvenient
> mathematical theorem (thank you Godel) that, in layman's terms, says:
> No matter how you organize things, there will always be something
> (e.g., a new track) that you'll need a new label for to make it fit.
> 
> Rather than add a layer of unnecessary and meaningless abstraction, we
> should fix the UI in which labels are presented so it is easy to drill
> down through several layers of labels and find the subset you are
> looking for.
> 
> Off the top of my head this would require: a filter bar, perhaps a
> breadcrumb interface to add multiple labels.
> 

Maybe plus a "recently used labels" and a "most frequently used labels" view.
However, I don't use labels at all so I don't know how useful this would be.

	-panzi