Organize by genre or directory?

[PolarWeasel]

First of all, Harmonium is quite nice -- thanks for putting in the effort to create and maintain it.

Now, my actual feature request: browsing "all music" displays every single artist in my music collection, which means browsing the entire list takes a long time. I have my music separated into top level directories like "Rock & Blues", "Classical", "Jazz", etc. Is it possible to modify Harmonium so it pays attention to the directory structure in which the files are stored?

I know you organize everything by ID3 tags now, so paying attention to the directory structure is probably a nontrivial modification; furthermore, there are some other issues like how many levels of the directory structure should be followed, discrepancies between the directory naming and the ID3 tag text, etc.

Perhaps instead you could have an option to "browse by genre" instead? I wouldn't have any problem assigning the same genre to the music in each of my directories; then you could create one additional top level of organization in the browse list, so I could select "Rock & Blues" (for example) to only browse the artists with songs that have their Genre ID3 tag set to "Rock & Blues".

In a nutshell, I'm hoping for an additional level of grouping of the music, either by directory structure or genre, to make browsing for particular music more manageable.

Thanks again for Harmonium. It's great software.

-PolarWeasel

[windracer]

Check out this thread:

http://harmonium.dazeend.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=23

[ceperry]

Yeah, what windracer said. Seriously, search or genre support in on my radar, but probably not for a while. I'm eyballing it for version 2.0.

[k9left09]

Yeah, what windracer said. Seriously, search or genre support in on my radar, but probably not for a while. I'm eyballing it for version 2.0.

Couldn't see what windracer linked to, but I vote for adding search or play by genre as a feature. Also, when will see an updated version of the software? Be brave, go integer.

[ceperry]

Right now I consider Harmonium at 1.0 in everything but name. There is one memory improvement I'll put in when I get time, but a real-life friend of mine named k9left09 once urged me to spend my time on projects that paid, so right now my programming time is going towards Action Lists which is conveniently available in the App Store (should the aforementioned k9left09 ever transition out of the 1990's by dumping his Treo ).

In any event, for those who are uninterested in this back-and-forth between me and k9left09, the short version is that when development settles down with my other project I will probably pick this one back up, and very high on the list of new features is search. But frankly, Harmonium is pretty feature complete from my perspective, and I don't have a lot of people bugging me that search is a must-have-now feature for them.