UI: How to make MusicBrainz dialog shine, or noob needs help.

[Rick W. Chen]

On 28 Oct 2010 09:40 +0400, Sergey Ivanov:
> 2010/10/28 Rick W. Chen <stuffcorpse at archlinux.us>:
> 
> >
> > I'd like to have both options as well. In Picard these are called
> > "lookup" and "scan". Lookup is generally much faster than scan,
> > especially when done on a "cluster" (tracks grouped by album); it
> > just looks at the album/artist names, how many tracks there are and find
> > the closest results musicbrainz gives. Having a treeview instead of list
> > helps with this clustering process.
> >
> > With a treeview that groups by album, it can list all the tracks that
> > belong to that album, and not just the ones that you have. It makes it
> > easier to see whether that album is the right one. Showing more metadata
> > supplied by musicbrainz also helps.
> >
> 
> Initially my implementation had been very similar to Picard (2 trees
> and 2 frames with old and new meta data in bottom), and also showed
> complete track list for albums, and tracks had been dragable  to move
> 'em between albums, or back to search list. But It was confusing for
> people not familiar with Picard ( discussion log
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100000/ ). :)
> 
> What kind of "supplied by musicbrainz" metadata I should also show?

Release date might be handy. Perhaps a clickable icon that opens the
musicbrainz page for the track or release is also good.

-- 
    Rick