Better handling i would like to have

[perlchamp]

Hello out there,
I would like to address some things I noticed here. I would also like to make some suggestions that should improve the usability (in my opinion):
My system:
I have HA installed on an RPi4 - works very well too. I call HA in Firefox on my Win11 PC. On this PC I have set up a user "HA", who has a share for the folder "Music". The user "HA" has read-only permissions. I have configured "Filesystem (remote share)" as the music provider. That works very well.
I edited ALL music files using the tool "MP3Tag", even the covers are implemented in each file.
My very old speaker system (subwoofer and 2 speakers) is directly connected to my PC via a 3.5 jack plug.

Problems:

1. It is not uncommon for album names to be long (e.g. due to additions such as "Live", "Remastered", "Deluxe Edition", etc.). For this reason, I would like tooltips to show the full name when you hover over the tile to be able to select the album you want without having to click on the "Information" link first - makes sense, right?
2. In the categories "Artists", "Albums" and "Titles" I would like to see a header bar (tabs from "A-Z", "Numbers" and "others") so that you don't have to scroll down forever to show an object starting with "T", for example.
3. In the results of a search (for example for "Santana"), I am increasingly annoyed that the order of the hits is not alphanumeric, because definite and indefinite articles (a, an, the) are not taken into account, i.e. "a house" is not under "a", but under "h", "the street" is not under "t", but under "s". This behavior is extremely annoying! In addition, not all albums are always displayed as hits!
4. Artist images and covers are displayed once and not the other time. I have not yet been able to solve why this is the case.
5. The area in which artist pictures are displayed is square. This limitation in width makes group pictures very small in height. It doesn't look good either. It works with pictures of individuals. However, since music bands usually consist of more than one person, the height and not the width should be the limiting factor.
6. A curiosity is and remains the search (maybe this is also due to the influence of MusicBrainz?). For example, there is a band called "Big Band of Brothers". If I search for "Big Band", I get hits. If I search for "Big Band of", I don't get any hits. If a hit is displayed, then the band name "Big Band Brothers" is displayed next to the album, if I then click on the album, the band name "Big Band of Brothers" is displayed for the titles. I tagged all the titles myself and wrote everything correctly - that's not the problem!
7. Music playback stops after 7 minutes at the latest - for whatever reason. For this reason, I use my locally installed player (winamp) again, and Music Assistant only as a visual library...

So long
Perlchamp

[OzGav]

1. You can use the list view to see more of the text
2. Please search before posting https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/2554
3. Your opinion does not need emotive language to be made. So keep the emotions out of posts
4. No one else is reporting this
5. No the standard for artist thumbs is square. Fanart is wide
6. This is ambiguous. You say “ If I search for "Big Band of", I don't get any hits.” then in the next sentence you say you get a result?
7. Sounds like you are using THIS DEVICE as a player. Likely the tab is getting suspended

[perlchamp]

Hi, thanks for your time.

1. I don't want to use list view, because i don't want to scroll as more as possible. I have about 8000 albums. Why no tool-tipps ?
2. sorry, didn't find that.
3. Sorry, but it hacks. Why this behaviour?
   

4. So i don't tell the truth ?

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5. I don't like that.
6. Why ambiguous? Please read exactly. If i search for "Big Band of" i don't get any hits for this band. If i search for "Big Band" i get hits for this band. So what's wrong?
   

7. Yes i use THIS DEVICE. Hm. This happens too, if i let the tap open and active. So what can i do?

[accma2]

I have a similar problem. MA keeps changing my album names.

The album name is: 1 (Remastered)
MA says is: 1

Why? I have everything related to metadata disabled.

[perlchamp]

This is a home-made problem of MA.
As long as you can't compose the titles of the albums by yourself - by means of appropriate tags - this behavior will remain that way.

The big question now i have:
why do i tag the files if MA doesn't use these informations for displaying title & Co?
I would like to have a configuration section, where i can configure (compose) the most of the main things like title, subtitle...
The configuration i would like to use for displaying the album title:
example:
[album title] ([type of release], [Status of release]) - [country of release] [comment] [year of the release of the version] [[Musicformat]]
=>
The Song Remains The Same (live, bootleg) - EU Remastered Limited Deluxe Edition 2015 [24-96]

[marcelveldt]

There is no uniform tag standard for version so we parse that from the title.
So remastered in this case becomes the "remastered" version.
That is how its designed and works really well for most people and what makes the linking between local files and streaming providers actually work.

Furthermore we read ALL tags that you define and you are in control, really the only compromis we had to do is the version parsing.

If that is not to your liking, that is fine. There is nobody demanding you to use MA.

You can always create a feature request to disable the version parsing and if it gets enough votes we can consider it.
It will just create duplicates for anyone using MA with both local and online providers.

[accma2]

MA it's the only music player that changes my album names and I can't disable that feature.

I think it's very simple. Just let the user use their tags if they want. Until then, for me it's impossible to use MA.

[perlchamp]

@marcelveldt:
i don't use MA and i don't use MusicBrainz, because tagging with MB is the horror. Only about 15% of the issues/releases will recognized...

@accma2:
that's absolutly correct. I'm agree.

[marcelveldt]

Then don't use MA or file a feature request?
And again, we are not changing any tags, we only parse the version from it and you will see it as one in the interface. If not, that is a bug