First experiences with the
Update 20190428 (
#4207557).
rern wroteUpdate 20190428
Add - Playlist > flash button - Consume mode - remove each song from playlist after played
Fix - unable to create 1st bookmark
Fix - unable to add/replace album to playlist in Browse By CoverArt > album view
Fix - names with double quotes in Browse By CoverArt
Fix - unable to edit thumbnails on Sort CoverArt by artist
Fix - set volume by tap
Fix - intermittent update notification
My first impression about coverarts browsing about five weeks ago: It's a decorative add-on for me, not more. I could live with Rune without coverarts at all. But *with* coverarts the GUI is looking more attractive in particular for purposes at demonstration to friends. But then I made some proposals to rern how to improve his implementation to fit better into a collection of mostly classical music and its peculiarities (importance of composers, artists (e.g. conductor, solist), CDs with same conductor but with works of different composers, multi-volume CDs (e.g. operas organized in acts), ...). In general: A collection of classical music has to be organized by
composers at the topmost level; Jazz, Rock, Pop - which are present in my collection, also - is organized by
performers.
With the release of April 28th I see have a stable implementation of coverart-browsing (thanks to rern). It's for me a very good QA tool also to correct several places where the tagging is inconsistent to my overall tagging strategy. Therefore I assume that the usefullness of the directory based browsing for other users, is in general dependent on their willingness to adapt the tagging. I'm starting now to work on the error lists (list-longnames.log, list-duplicates.log) to improve my ID3-tagging.
rern wroteNote on disk format: Windows formatted disk, NTFS or FAT*, will have issues with extra directories: bookmarks, coverarts, webradios. They contain files which their names contain forbidden charaters in Windows. Windows will try to fix them which result in broken filenames. So from now on, those extra directories will be created on linux ext* formatted disk only.
This means if there's no ext* disk found on USB or NAS, they will be in SD card which will be gone if reflashed with no backup. Plug in a USB drive with ext* format before install will help in this situation.
I migrated already my music collection from a NTFS formatted disk to a ext4 one. It was not such a hassle for me, because my desktop computer is a dual-boot system (Windows, Linux). But YMMV.