Idea: "Play Album" command should add tracks to play queue that match sort genre

[hdave]

I have albums that contain a compilation of tracks that happen to be tagged with different genres. Think of a classical music CD with Opera, Baroque, and Classical on it -- or a Jazz collection with Fusion, Funk, and Jazz on it.

I've noticed that when filtering cover art by genre, any album with at least one track tagged with that genre are (correctly) included.

However, if I click right on the album and select the "Play Album" menu choice, all album tracks are added to the Play Queue. Maybe its just me, but it seems that only the tracks that match the genre (I've bothered to explicitly filter by) should appear in the play queue.

Or perhaps there could be a second menu choice available when a) filtering by genre, and b) the selected album is a compilation that has multiple genre's in use for its tracks:

Play Album (always there)

and

Play <<genre>> Tracks (sometimes there)

My 2c :-)

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[asermax]

Although an interesting idea, I don't think we should implement this. Primarily because (at least in my understanding of things) the plugin philosophy is to manage the album as it's atomic element in most cases. We do manage some track-level stuff (like in the search or showing the tracks in the album), but those are mostly build upon simple managment of the album properties. The change you propose in the other hand, implies coupling album-level controls (the search/filter value) with track-level managment, which "brokes" that philosophy. Also, if we were to implement this change, we should do the same for the other filters (like the artists one).

Neverthless, I'm not against someone implementing this, I'm just giving my point of view d:

[fossfreedom]

my 2c is that I'm not overtly opposed to this - but as a use-case, is there a large enough "demand" for the functionality? I've been looking through (albeit not as large as @asermax !) my collection, and I dont have any multiple genre albums.

In this case I suppose a workaround is to filter by genre. Then select all/some albums (ctrl+A etc), open the track-view and then sort by genre column. You can then just highlight all the tracks you want to play matching the genre of choice.

The new functionality @asermax recently added will also help here since now you can just highlight the first track of choice - press play and then all tracks in the genre order will play.