suggestions to customize browsing

[winxi]

(30-08-2012 18:52)simoncn Wrote:  The showExtras switch does what you say you want (it removes all selections that include 'Hide Contents'), so I'm not clear exactly what change you're suggesting.

The reason for having the showExtras switch is to accommodate control points that can't handle 'Hide Contents' correctly. This is why it either disables all the 'Hide Contents' choices or none of them.

Hi, my intention was to just switch off Hide Contents. It seems that I'm still not really get the point about the Hide Contents functionality. I can figure out that it may be useful when adding a complete multidisc album AND the control point doesn't filter out duplicate items. Moreover, the multidisc album has to be incomplete (e.g. just a song of disc 2 and no disc 1), because otherwise the '>> Disc X' selection wouldn't even show up.
Hide Contents does also appear e.g. with '>> Tag View' or '>> Show All' in an alphabetical grouped view and i can't figure out in which case this would be useful. It would prevent adding the complete '>> Tag View' or '>> Show All' to the playlist, but i wouldn't want to do this anyways.

Let me give an example for '>> Show All' in an alphabetical grouped view. Now, the browsing steps are the following to get to the view of all albums:
1) >> Show All
2) >> View All (with >> Hide contents at the top)

I would like a switch to get directly to the view of all albums when selecting '>> Show All' without step 2). I'm sure that Hide Contents is something useful for some people, although I doesn't really know why. I believe that it handles some rare cases for a few people and thus it should be optional.

winxi

EDIT: so, i think i've figured out the intention of Hide Contents in all >> views. I will give an example again, please correct me if I'm wrong:

1st level:
n albums --> choose
n items
All Artists
...

2nd level:
>> Show All --> choose
#
A
B
...

3rd level:
>> Hide Contents
View All

If somebody decides to add the whole container 'n albums' of the first level to the playlist (I personally would never do that), '>> Hide Contents' in the 3rd level will prevent duplicated items.

I would love an option to omit the 3rd level, but to keep '>> Show All' in the second level. Adding all items to the playlist without having duplicates could still be achieved by adding the '>> Show All' container to the playlist instead of 'n albums' in the first level. In fact, I would want to omit every level containing '>> Hide Contents' in any case.

'>> Hide Contents' is quite a special concept, and it may be confusing for the users. After all, it demonstrates that you really think thoroughly about what you are doing.

cheers, winxi