Library Artist/Album in 2.9 beta

[tylerhunt]

This not necessarily be interpreted as a bug report, depending on the developers thought behind the implementation, but it's serious enough that I would consider it a bug.

The issue occurs when using the Media Library in Artist/Album view. If you select an artist from an album with more than one artist, the album pane on the right updates to show the name of the album, and the nubmer of tracks appearing on it from the currently selected artist. It seems much more intuitive however, to show the album on the right in which the currently selected artist's songs appear, but to show the actual track count for that particular album instead of the count of tracks by the selected artist.

As I'm writing this I'm starting to question what really is the most intuitive implementation. I think it would be a combination of the current implementation and it's alternative, where the two columns behave in a more independent manner. Maybe adding a context menu option to select all tracks from the album, "overriding" the artist selection in the left column.

Another way to do this would be to make a way to deselect the artist in the left without also losing the album selection on the right.

I wanted to throw this out, because I just starting plaing with the Media Library tonight and noticed that it behaved in this unexpected way. The best feedback tends to come from "virgin" users, so I'm posting this for the benefit of future users of Winamp and the consideration of the Nullsoft development team.