Cover Bling to Help Rediscover your Music

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Hello,

  Just to let you know as well, i did a mockup after Akademy of an alternative 
layout of this, just called a CD Stack :) For your convenience here's the 
link: 
http://leinir.dk/temp/gallery/mockups.php?image=mockups/cd-stack-in-glorious-pen-o-vision.jpg



Thursday 16 August 2007 skrev Sébastien Laoût:
> Hello everybody,
>
>
> I understand your desire to bring something as beautiful as Cover Flow to
> Amarok, and at the same time, do not copy it all.
> So here is a mockup I'm proposing, with explanations of why I think it has
> a good usability and usefulness.
>
> Here is the mockup:
> http://slaout.linux62.org/kde-wishs/cover-bling-proposal.png
>
>
> Here is how I came up with that proposal:
>
> Advantages of Cover Flow:
> - It's beautiful
> - It let you "randomly" browse your collection visually by covers, so you
> can stop scrolling when you notice a cover you remember is associated with
> good music
> - It is like a shelf, where you look at "physical" albums. I know old
> people who still must burn all audio CDs for them to be more real even if
> choosing music to play on a computer is waaay faster. Having that "virtual
> shelf" is a must for them.
>
> Advantages of the current Amarok Collection browser:
> - Brand names are written in recognisable and readable text (not cover
> images!)
> - There are "graphical" titles for each letter of the alphabet, letting you
> to quickly switch to a letter you want
>
> Disadvantages of Cover Flow:
> - All covers are mixed, it is not clear to which artists belong the covers.
> Covers should be grouped by artists so it's more organized
> - Covers are sometimes somewhat mysterious. It is better to have the artist
> and album name printed in plain text
>
> Disdvantages of the current Amarok Collection browser:
> - Cover arts are sometimes more speaking than artist names. Sometimes I do
> not remember if the artist or album XYZ is containing very great songs. But
> I remember more easily with a cover. A cover image convey more emotion than
> a text. By browsing my collection by covers, I could more think "hey, I
> remember it, it has great songs, let's play it"
> - It is hierarchical. Trees are bad usability wise. Same "hierarchycal"
> effect can be applied by grouping all albums of the same artist. Cf. the
> mockup
>
> Disadvantage of both:
> - If you know the artist you want, you have to scroll until you find it.
> They does not offer a way to click a letter to directly go to artists
> starting with that letter
>
>
> So it's in the spirit of joining the beautiful of CoverFlow (with images,
> animations and cover arts) and the usefulness of the current collection
> browser (with plain texts) that I propose that mockup of CoverBling.
>
>
> PS: I'm not subscribed to the mailing list. Please CC me.
>
> Best regards,
> Sébastien Laoût.
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