[Android] Stacking of folders when viewing "All Folders
Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 1:29 amI like to keep my FLAC and MP3's seperate. Its a personal preference so that I can easily tell what needs to be upgraded to FLAC down the road, when it becomes available.
my folder structure is as follows:
C:\Music\FLAC
C:\Music\MP3
C:\Music\WAV
C:\Music\Podcasts
Sometimes an artist will have some content available in FLAC, and some content ONLY availible in MP3. So i might end up with a Radiohead folder under FLAC and a Radiohead folder under MP3, like such:
C:\Music\FLAC\Radiohead
C:\Music\MP3\Radiohead
Now if i add both C:\Music\FLAC and C:\Music\MP3 to my subsonic in the web interface, everything goes smoothly. When you view "All Folders" in the web interface it even combines the 2 seperate Radiohead folders into 1 "virtual folder" where all my Radiohead exists. So when viewing "all folders" all my Radiohead appears to be in one place. (even though it is technically in 2 places. some in mp3, some in flac)
Why does this work fine in the web interface, but in the Android Client, i end up with 2 separate Radiohead folders when viewing "All folders"? Is this a bug, or an oversight? It would be a very nice feature to have for people who's music collection wont fit on 1 hard drive, or who manage the quality of their music like I do across multiple directories.
TL;DR: When viewing "All folders" in the android client, it would be nice for it to combine folders of the same name (and their contents) in to one nice clean "Virtual Folder" (like it already does in the Web Interface)
Xbox Media Center does the same sort of thing with its "Media Views" so you dont have to keep all 22 seasons of the Simpsons on 1 hard drive/directory, but can still view them all in one central place.
Even if the developers dont want to add this to the android client, could they at least make the web interface act the same way as the android client? At least be consistent guys. Its confusing trying to explain to users that it works one way on the Web Interface, and another way on the android client.
my folder structure is as follows:
C:\Music\FLAC
C:\Music\MP3
C:\Music\WAV
C:\Music\Podcasts
Sometimes an artist will have some content available in FLAC, and some content ONLY availible in MP3. So i might end up with a Radiohead folder under FLAC and a Radiohead folder under MP3, like such:
C:\Music\FLAC\Radiohead
C:\Music\MP3\Radiohead
Now if i add both C:\Music\FLAC and C:\Music\MP3 to my subsonic in the web interface, everything goes smoothly. When you view "All Folders" in the web interface it even combines the 2 seperate Radiohead folders into 1 "virtual folder" where all my Radiohead exists. So when viewing "all folders" all my Radiohead appears to be in one place. (even though it is technically in 2 places. some in mp3, some in flac)
Why does this work fine in the web interface, but in the Android Client, i end up with 2 separate Radiohead folders when viewing "All folders"? Is this a bug, or an oversight? It would be a very nice feature to have for people who's music collection wont fit on 1 hard drive, or who manage the quality of their music like I do across multiple directories.
TL;DR: When viewing "All folders" in the android client, it would be nice for it to combine folders of the same name (and their contents) in to one nice clean "Virtual Folder" (like it already does in the Web Interface)
Xbox Media Center does the same sort of thing with its "Media Views" so you dont have to keep all 22 seasons of the Simpsons on 1 hard drive/directory, but can still view them all in one central place.
Even if the developers dont want to add this to the android client, could they at least make the web interface act the same way as the android client? At least be consistent guys. Its confusing trying to explain to users that it works one way on the Web Interface, and another way on the android client.