03-Apr-2015, 13:09
(03-Apr-2015, 11:46)JohnH Wrote: Comments on the Conductor app.Yes, genres are not implemented well. My classical music has the "Classical" ID-tag, but I still can't select that genre. I thinks it's a small problem, since I don't really use genres, but I still hope they'll add proper genre support to the Conductor app.
While I generally like the Conductor app, I do have reservations about the browsing options provided, which I don't find well suited to classical music libraries. I am accustomed to using UPnP servers like the excellent Minimserver and like to access my music via Genre->Composer->Album or maybe Genre->Composer->Artist. These options are not provided in the Conductor app. Alas, many of the sorting options offered are of no interest, and where I do want sorting options, they are not provided. In particular:
I fancy playing a piano concerto and so I select the genre Concerto-Piano
This displays all the piano concerto album covers sorted by album title (no option provided to sort in any other order). Unfortunately, this only displays the first 20 characters or so of the album names, which is often not enough to identify the album - e.g. Beethoven: Piano Con, So not possible to identify the 3rd piano concerto, say.
So switch to the alternate album title view. You then get a list of albums, not in full alphabetical order, and expanded with all the track contents. So it is extremely laborious to find the album by scrolling down a possibly very long list.
Fortunately, I decided to organize the files on disc in folders that reflect the way I generally want to search (genre/composer/album) and the album titles include composer and artist - e.g. Beethoven: Pno Cto 3 [Sudbin]. So I can fall back on a folder search when necessary, but really that shouldn't be necessary.
I have fed back these comments to Aurender support and received prompt replies. Some suggestions to work around these problems were made (e.g. searching with keywords), otherwise my comments have been added to their wish list.
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