by mcow » Sun Mar 03, 2013 1:29 pm
nohitter151 wrote:Ludek wrote:- there is usually a lot of files in library and therefore distinguishing between indexes À, A, 1, 2 makes sense for song titles (unlike artist, album).
Well, I would argue that's just silliness. There are hundreds of songs beginning with "T" but they're not broken down further into Ta, Te, Th, Ti...
Also, separate indices for . # ( " and so on continues to be no use. Sorting by the first letter (or digit) in the title would almost always be OK, but barring that, a single all-symbol category would be helpful.
It's as important to make the list of indices manageable as it is to make the list of songs manageable. What's really needed is adaptive indexing, but that doesn't have a chance as along as simplistic advocates for "consistency" have the developers' ear, while people who in fact design UIs professionally and have studied information theory do not.
[quote="nohitter151"][quote="Ludek"]- there is usually a lot of files in library and therefore distinguishing between indexes À, A, 1, 2 makes sense for song titles (unlike artist, album).[/quote][/quote]
Well, I would argue that's just silliness. There are hundreds of songs beginning with "T" but they're not broken down further into Ta, Te, Th, Ti...
Also, separate indices for . # ( " and so on continues to be no use. Sorting by the first letter (or digit) in the title would almost always be OK, but barring that, a single all-symbol category would be helpful.
It's as important to make the list of indices manageable as it is to make the list of songs manageable. What's really needed is adaptive indexing, but that doesn't have a chance as along as simplistic advocates for "consistency" have the developers' ear, while people who in fact design UIs professionally and have studied information theory do not.