No composer column in playlist view

[Ben Beasley]

The lack of support for the composer field (available in ID3V2 and FLAC tags, among others) makes Exaile altogether useless for classical collections, where the composer is much more important information than the artist. It's a shame not to be able to use any players other than Amarok for this reason.

[Ben Beasley (ben-musicinmybrain)]

I strongly agree, especially since it's not clear when the new Amarok 2 will support this feature (and I'm not too excited about Amarok's new direction anyway).

[reacocard (reacocard)]

I think perhaps the best way to go about this is to just allow any tag at all to be chosen as a column. It's easier than trying to maintain a list of all possible tags (though common.py has a pretty thorough list already).

The one caution with this route is that that's a really big list, so we'll have to do something to keep it under control. Perhaps the best way is to just keep the current list and add a "Custom..." option to allow the selection of any tag.

[Ben Beasley (ben-musicinmybrain)]

In common.py? I didn't see an explicit list of tags there.

Anyway, here's a simple patch that add a functional composer column to the playlist GUI. I just added another Column class instance to plcolumns.py.

[reacocard (reacocard)]

patch committed r1752, with a note in FUTURE about possibly expanding to arbitrary tags.

[Ben Beasley (ben-musicinmybrain)]

Thanks, Aren.