Genre set to None

[Adnane Belmadiaf]

The genre should be something descriptive when it's not set rather than None.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Do we need to consult design on this?

"Unknown" would be my choice instead of "None".

[Adnane Belmadiaf (daker)]

+1 for "Unknown" that's what every mediaplayer does.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

We should avoid ranking trivial and mostly subjective bugs so high.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

I find "Unknown" to be just as undescriptive as "None"--but I agree it's widely used. I just don't like it. The Google Play app groups such tracks into an "Other" category. I'd prefer that if we decide to change.

I think the most important change would be to force whatever we use to either fit in the alphabetic ordering or put it at the end.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Agree on the priority, sorry.

At the moment the null items will be at the start of the list due them having a value of "".

Do we have any designers we can consault over the naming?

[Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey)]

"Unknown" would push it nearer the end of the list of genres in en_GB but may not in other locales?

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

The "Unknown" is pushed to the top currently due to the conversion being done post sorting, I'll try and move it so it is done earlier.

Also there is the discussion whether we should use "Other", "Unknown" or Unknown with a context eg "Unknown Artist" to be resolved.

[Katie Taylor (katie-t)]

Hello! I'm Katie from the design team.

I think that tracks without a genre should use 'unknown'. And that the tracks with unknown genre should be grouped at the end.

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

Katie, thank you for the clarification on the use of "Unknown".

Ok i've changed it so that the conversion is done before sorting, so the "Unknown" tracks are now merged in with tracks already named unknown in alphabetical order.

Do we really want unknown tracks to appear at the end of the list and not in their logical alphabetical position?
If we do, what would we then do with the tracks that are already called "Unknown" do we move them as well, and I also have tracks with data stored as "Other" do we move them as well?
Surely it would be simpler for them to remain in alphabetical order?

[Ubuntu Phone Apps Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-phone-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:music-app at revision None, scheduled for release in music-app, milestone 1.0