Improve Music UI "Appears on" add more detail "see all" ,alpha picker,

[Vicpa 608]

Hi

With the recent changes, the UI for "Appears on" needs an update.

I now have alot of artists that the "Appears On" list contains, 20-100+ albums.

Albums now appear in the list that the UI doesn't show what the relationship to the artist is.

For example. This is the first album in my John Lennon "appears on list.

The UI provides no information as to why "John Lennon" appears on this album. He is not a member of Cheap Trick, he did not play on the album. (recorded after his untimely death). A casual user may just think this is a bug.

Now as I understand the new "feature" John Lennon has a composer credit, on one of the above songs.  But based on the UI that is just a guess., which one?  I would suggest adding to the display Composed by John Lennon to the appropriate tracks. 

The navigation is cumbersome at best., need a See All, Lennon "appears" on 80+ albums. I have others of 100+ . (8 plus clicks on the More arrow)

Addition of a see all option is needed. The default display would be best to sorted by Artist. That would at least group the display logically. The new table display is not the solution. 

-Thanks

-vicpa

 

[user24 245]

On 7/11/2022 at 12:02 AM, Vicpa said:

With the recent changes, the UI for "Appears on" needs an update.

The Appears On section definitely needs to be selectable and expandable for music, perhaps like the Songs and Albums sections are now? This would be consistent with the current UI and not negatively impact on anyone not needing the expanded view.

In many instances I would have 100+ albums in this row, making it quite difficult to view/browse them all efficiently. Sometimes there are more Albums for a given Artist in the Appears On section than what there are in the Albums section!!!

Picking a random example from my library - Chuck Berry:

• Albums: 6
• Appears On : 87

(As Appears On currently combines Artists and Composers the item count can become very large very quickly.)

This is NOT an isolated-outlier-use-case for me and I imagine it would be quite common for anyone with a large music library.

I've also been customising the Album Artist / Artist / Composer pages (to show some different useful views) and the single row horizontal scrolling of Appears On is a limiting factor with achieving useful functionality.

Emby is already very good. Improvements in this area would make Emby so much better!