Request: move key back to “song details” group

musicadi

Hi Peter,

First of all, many thanks for your amazing work and the fact that you are listening to our feedback and whining 🙂 I know it’s extremely difficult to please everyone, and compromises are always needed, but in the long run, fine-tuning all these things will make sure the user experience is increased, and you will get more and more new users, since ST4 just rocks! 🙂

Starting a new thread on this, because I think it’s critical from use perspective.

I love the additional info bar and the fact that you can select what you would like to have displayed.

However, if someone decides they only need to see song key, which is the most important info after title, they will see this.

First row - Title, Key, Duration. Title is now shorter, to leave space for the key
Second row - Only artist, lots of empty space to the right

Suggestion
Treat Key as a “Song detail” and move it back to the info bar.

Benefit
A way more cleaner song list

I know you wrote all these details wouldn’t fit, if key was left down there, but honestly, how many people do you think would select all 6 tags? If they want to see everything, they’d just have to make the song list wider.

On the other hand, people like me, who only need to see the key, are forced to have it in the title row, and honestly, it just looks busy 🙂

royandreno

musicadi Actually I like it the way it is now, quick and easy to see. When the key was on the sub line /artist line, the key was hard to see. I will not die on this hill, but I much prefer the key to be easy to see, as in the current build.

rowe2000

royandreno
In my view, the artist field is less critical. From an aesthetic standpoint, a song length of 0:00 and a tempo of 0 BPM is excluded—though 0 BPM is not supported in any case.

Maybe the only way to get everyone fully satisfied is to make it fully configurable — but how? That would require a lot of code hacking I suppose and take time away from our other wishes.

So my vote is to stay at the current look is good enough.

musicadi

royandreno Ok, you might be right. Maybe if it would under duration, it would be harder to spot.

peter

I also prefer it this way. It does stand out better which I think is important for this info. I don't feel the list being cluttered by this.

musicadi

peter Ok, I'll just get used to it then 🙂

jaytrax

Personally I’ve always put “Key of C#m” into the artist field since ST3 and will continue to do so with ST4

musicadi

jaytrax Yeah, if you never want to sort by artist, that’s a great workaround🙂

musicadi

@peter can we at least choose the font color for the key? 🙂

Maybe an option that lets you choose where to show it (near duration / in info bar)? 😀

peter

Sorry, I will not change this. I like the way it looks. The only option I would be willing to add is to hide the Key field. But certainly no option to move it around or change colors.

musicadi

peter I guess there’s no need to hide it then. If we don’t need it there, we just don’t add the info to the songs.