Ubuntu
rhythmbox package

Show Disc Number next to Album (if exists)

Bug #74261 reported by Kristoffer Lundén
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Rhythmbox
Expired
Wishlist
rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Small enhancement request:

I have all of my albums that contain more than one disc tagged with disc number, and album name being the same for all the discs in the set (after all, there's an entry for disc # so why not use it? :).

Rhythmbox currently has no way of showing this. It does sort the discs separately so that they are grouped (because they are in different directories on the drive maybe?) but there is no way to see which disc is which or even that a socg is part of a multi-disc.

I would like for Rhythmbox to, if and only if there is a disc number present in the tags, add it after the Album name in the same column in some nice way. A few examples:

Album Name (1)
Album Name (Disc 1)
Album Name - #1
Album Name (#1)

I like the first one best, it's discreet yet informative, number two is almost as good but perhaps takes too much space.

Also, if the sorting is only due to directories on disc, perhaps disc number should be taken into account when sorting too.

There's at least one GNOME bug that is semi-related[1], but that is about possibly adding columns for disc number among others, which is not what I want, or at least I think that may be overkill though it would also solve the problem.

1. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167659

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Elliot Hughes (elliot-hughes) wrote :

Thanks for your report. As your Bug looks like a Features Request your idea might get more attention and have the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec following the steps described in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.
Thanks again for your report.

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Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden) wrote :

I disagree.

This is a small fix/tweak/enhancement to existing features, something which has traditionally been handled in this and other bug systems from what I can see. To draft a complete specification and have it go through boards of review and all that seems a very backwards and wasteful way to go. Looking at the specs that do exist, they seem to handle bigger issues and completely new features, not minor fixes. I don't see this report fitting in there at all.

The usual action for stuff like this is forwarding it upstream. I could of course have reported it upstream directly, but I've been told that Ubuntu likes to have it all filed here.

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Dave Morley (davmor2) wrote :

Sorry Kristoffer I have to agree with the below. There is no stipulation on how small a feature is but it needs to go to a different team otherwise it will never get added. Please read the below message and send your spec to the link, where the devs can actually receive it and act accordingly.

Thanks for your report. Your idea might get more attention and have
the possibility of being implemented if you would submit a
specification for this.

You should first check whether it already exists at the Ubuntu specs
page (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) in Launchpad. If
that is the case, feel free to contact the drafter of that spec about
your comments/suggestions. Otherwise you can start writing a spec
following the steps described in
        https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureSpecifications.

davmor2 (davmor2-gmail-merged)
Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: nobody → davmor2-gmail
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

davmor2, no point to push people to make a spec about small feature request like that

Kristoffer, if you know that's an upstream feature request you are really welcome to forward it upstream. We want people to report bugs to Ubuntu if they have a doubt so we can look if the problem from a distribution patch before forwarding. We don't have the manpower to forward all the small feature request like yours though, we get hundred of bugs by month and have few people working on them. I'm reopening and marking the task as wishlist and opening an upstream task to show it's to forward. If you want to open the bug upstream and update the upstream task with the bugzilla number that would be nice

Changed in rhythmbox:
assignee: davmor2-gmail → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Rejected → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's known upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311199

Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unconfirmed → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in rhythmbox:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in rhythmbox:
status: Confirmed → Expired
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