Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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Dreadlau
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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windcrest77 wrote:
brs_manamal1 wrote:This is right on target showing COLLAPSED "TRACKS" with the ability to expand when you WANT TO saving hours of scrolling and allowing users to easily manipulate the library especially when tagging. I used to leave all tracks collapsed and only leave tracks open on albums with tagging issues so when I happened across them again I would know that there was work to be done on the tags or some other issue within. this is not optional for me and before anyone says it(again) I don't want to use another stupid view, this is what I need for a very LARGE library requiring tons of work!!!!! I'm willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve this!!!!
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I don't understand why media monkey which in my opinion is the best player/organizer out there right now would not implement this after years of people begging for it....are you guys serious really!!!! Give it up Monkey, we need this one!
I think this is what I was asking about a few weeks ago, something that combines a grid with a tree in the same main rectangle. But I was thinking that the tree hierarchy would morph itself automatically to whatever column you last sorted on or whatever column you told an autoplaylist to sort on etc. So if you clicked a different columnn for sorting in the grid then the tree / grid plus signs would automatically group the whole grid contents by that new sort sequence. Lets say my autoplaylist was sorted initially by BPM; then by rating; then by artist; then by title. In this case the grid would have BPM as the topmost group headers, expanding each unique BPM would give more group headers by artist, expanding an artist would give group headers by song name, expanding a song name would give all versions of that song (if more than one exists). IOW the tree/grid would always be aware of the current sort sequence and add expanding groups based on that until the sort hierarchy is exhausted. At the point one clicks to the innermost sort hierarchy you just get songs. My example is complicated in that it has sorting on BPM, rating, artist, title. If I were to re sort the grid heaer on just artist then the tree / grid would only group by artist, so expanding the artist would simply dump all the songs under it. If I were to re-sort by artist and album then you would see the tree / grid group itself by album within artist, etc. Is this clear?

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =4&t=59909
That's exactly what I want! Nice.
That would be absolutely perfect. :D
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brs_manamal1
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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OMG!!! were starting to really think about this now....awesome sooo..where do we need to edit, tree node?
windcrest77
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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Dreadlau wrote:
windcrest77 wrote:
brs_manamal1 wrote:This is right on target showing COLLAPSED "TRACKS" with the ability to expand when you WANT TO saving hours of scrolling and allowing users to easily manipulate the library especially when tagging. I used to leave all tracks collapsed and only leave tracks open on albums with tagging issues so when I happened across them again I would know that there was work to be done on the tags or some other issue within. this is not optional for me and before anyone says it(again) I don't want to use another stupid view, this is what I need for a very LARGE library requiring tons of work!!!!! I'm willing to do whatever is necessary to achieve this!!!!
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I don't understand why media monkey which in my opinion is the best player/organizer out there right now would not implement this after years of people begging for it....are you guys serious really!!!! Give it up Monkey, we need this one!
I think this is what I was asking about a few weeks ago, something that combines a grid with a tree in the same main rectangle. But I was thinking that the tree hierarchy would morph itself automatically to whatever column you last sorted on or whatever column you told an autoplaylist to sort on etc. So if you clicked a different columnn for sorting in the grid then the tree / grid plus signs would automatically group the whole grid contents by that new sort sequence. Lets say my autoplaylist was sorted initially by BPM; then by rating; then by artist; then by title. In this case the grid would have BPM as the topmost group headers, expanding each unique BPM would give more group headers by artist, expanding an artist would give group headers by song name, expanding a song name would give all versions of that song (if more than one exists). IOW the tree/grid would always be aware of the current sort sequence and add expanding groups based on that until the sort hierarchy is exhausted. At the point one clicks to the innermost sort hierarchy you just get songs. My example is complicated in that it has sorting on BPM, rating, artist, title. If I were to re sort the grid heaer on just artist then the tree / grid would only group by artist, so expanding the artist would simply dump all the songs under it. If I were to re-sort by artist and album then you would see the tree / grid group itself by album within artist, etc. Is this clear?

http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... =4&t=59909
That's exactly what I want! Nice.
That would be absolutely perfect. :D

Yes the "tree/grid" control is fairly new but is becoming very popular in the business world application development. I often write specs for developers to use this type of control when I request database applications from IT at work. There is a control available that automatically handles all this grouping and sub-grouping for you, all you have to do is dump the raw data rows into the grid (initially with only the orderby and group by columns selected) and tell it how to order/group them in the grid. By default we usually just tie the sorting together with the grouping, so it goes like this (OrderBy a, ThenBy b, ThenBy c, ThenBy d) and (GroupBy a, ThenBy b, ThenBy c, ThenBy d), or you could truncate the grouping at "b" but still let the OrderBy go all the way to "d" if you dont want so much drill down to reveal the detail rows at a higher level but with duplicated data in columns c and d showing. At the point the tree is going to show full detail rows you do a last-second query of all the other columns that are not participating in ordering and grouping, this keeps the working set very small in the grid up to the point the detail-level is being asked to be seen so the non-group/order columns are needed from the database, up to that point that data can stay on the DB. Its really a very cool way to navigate databases. Currently with a flat (non-hierarchical) grid ALL the columns need to be populated all the time on all the rows, this makes the grid very heavy and when you sort it you see many rows with duplicated data in the column(s) you sorted on because no grouping occurred. People could still have that heaviness if they want, just add a checkbox indicating that the grid is not to be grouped at all even if I sort it, then it will behave like a flat grid again for people who want things the same as now. Or add a checkbox indicating that grouping should only go to a mx depth of 3 even if I sorted on 5 columns. There are a lot of posibilities; ordering and grouping are intrinsicly tied together but the grouping does not necessarily have to go as deep as the ordering is all Im saying, if you can put up with some repeated data in an ordered column. These grid controls can actually interpret an Order By and a Group By clause in the same SQL statement data source and adjust themselves on the fly in terms of both UI grouping and ordering. IOW I have seen developers do this with no lines of code other than running the query and binding it to the hierarchical grid control and setting the innermost level expand eventto run an "all selected columns" query. This will make a very light and fast grid data-wise.
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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windcrest77 wrote: MM should not lock itself into hard-coded groupings
I second that.
Flexibility and a feeling of liberty is what I long for in a manager such as Mediamonkey.
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Dreadlau wrote:
windcrest77 wrote: MM should not lock itself into hard-coded groupings
I second that.
Flexibility and a feeling of liberty is what I long for in a manager such as Mediamonkey.
The tree grid also lets you sort independent of the grouping, So if you wanted to have the grouping stay locked you can still sort the detail within any group by any columns showing without causing the grid to regroup the rows on the latest sort sequence. I think if this were implemented you could put an option button at the top of the grid with 2 choices (1. Automatically create the grouping hierarchy based on my last sort sequence OR 2. Leave my selected grouping hierarchy alone but let me sort columns without affecting the current grouping hierarchy).

This grid also virtualizes large result sets to only use memory for the few dozen rows that are in view, all other rows are kept out of the grid until they are needed in the viewing rectangle.
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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very interesting....i follow you but would not know how to implement this on my own...is this something we can work on???? I have MM set on several machines and will volunteer to test any scripting changes, I can make the changes to code with the proper directions also....Here's to building a better Monkey!!! :o
windcrest77
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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brs_manamal1 wrote:very interesting....i follow you but would not know how to implement this on my own...is this something we can work on???? I have MM set on several machines and will volunteer to test any scripting changes, I can make the changes to code with the proper directions also....Here's to building a better Monkey!!! :o

I dont know I'm not a developer but I work with IT departments to develop apps and we use Telerik controls here instead of Microsoft controls. The control that does all this magic out of the box is made by Telerik, the programmers around here tell me that Microsoft does not make a grid that combines a tree with a grid in the same user interface control. This would not be somethang that can be done with scripting, it woul have to be part of the MM kernal because its essentially a new grid control replacing the current grid control. I dont even know what programming language or platform MM is written in, here at work they use WPF and C# with .NET Framework 4.
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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well i hope you continue to follow this thread because all we need to do is get a developer from MM involved in this... in the meanwhile I am trying very hard to understand the source code of MM myself(hahhaahha) I have some coding experience so maybe with some luck we can catch a break. I am going to reinstall an old version of musicmatch to compare to how MM is written also. We need to get this to the wishlist wich I have had no real positive response from yet. Great input and thanks for helping us to understand some of the differences!
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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Since MM is waiting for more users to request this feature before they'll act on it, I just wanted to add my vote to making this one of the highest MM new development tasks!!! p.s. I'm a Gold user so I paid for MM, if that adds any weight to my request.
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Re: Library View...Collapse Tracks!!!!!!!!Please!!!!

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thanks bro this would make MM the Ultimate wouldn't it....in the meanwhile I've loaded MusicMatch 7.5 on another puter and am using it untill this gets done....!!!
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I would like this as well. It would probably best to have the option to set a specific collection to a default view as described above.
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+1 But I would like it as an extra option so dont get rid of the normal default view.
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just so you know Music Match had this collapsible view and could "expand all" with one click which would be the view you use now making this even more desirable for you guys who still want to use the current view! I'm telling you it's a win win!!!!! :wink:
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Having to take an extra step to get the same as current isn't a win. I don't mind that collapsed tracks gets added as long as the way it currently works doesn't get altered.
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I agree.
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