Release year in playlist

Hi,

Would it be possible to show the year of release (taken from the ID3 tag) in the playlist? That would be very helpful.

Thanks. :wink:

+1 for that thought. I was thinking the same the other day.

(Optionally) Seeing the year in the Browser would ALSO be good.

BFN
CAD

In my opinion, the release year is irrelevant for 99% of the users. In other words, it would only waste space on most peopleā€™s screens. Thatā€™s why I wouldnā€™t want to introduce it as a new default column.

Thereā€™s also a lot of other columns that some people would want to have. Album name or something.

What about a feature that lets you add custom columns to the playlist? The format for the column can easily specified through the existing log variables mechanism.

It could be a default column, but with the option to either switch it on or off in the config. Those who donā€™t want to use it, leave it off, those of us who do, switches it on. That seems to me ā€“ as a non-programmer ā€“ the easiest option.

But I have no problems with custom columns either. As long as there is a way to do it, Iā€™m all for it! :wink:

Oh, and remember that ā€œYearā€ is not one of the standard fields for mAirList playlist items. Itā€™s only one of the user-definable attributes, just like ā€œGenreā€, ā€œAlbumā€, ā€œFavorite day of the week to play this song onā€, ā€œColor of the singerā€™s hairā€ or whatever you wish to maintain as attributes :slight_smile:

Thatā€™s one more pro argument for implementing this through a ā€œadditional (attribute) columsā€ function.

By the way, did I mention that thereā€™s a ā€œno new featuresā€ phase for mAirList now for the next couple of months? Thereā€™s some other projects I have to work on, including a very special one in August (Cad knows what Iā€™m talking about).

Or perhaps an "Track Infoā€™ā€™ button on the playlist. It could open a window over the browser showing any info items enabled globally in Config (year, artist, album, last played [backsell], next scheduled play [frontsell], etc).

Regards, Alec

You can already see part of the tag info by right-click and properties in a playlist although itā€™s not the most user friendly option. Maybe add something that when you hover your cursor over item in playlist it will display the expanded track info if available?