[Music App and Scope] Consistent use of "Songs" or "Tracks" between Music app and Music scope

[Victor Thompson]

It'd be ideal if both the Music app (which currently uses "Songs") and the Music scope (which uses "Tracks") used similar terminology.

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

Agreed, will check which one to go with.

[Christian (kurisu666)]

I would prefer "tracks"!

It isn't just right to title epic rock songs as "songs", just to name an example: Nobody would consider "Stairway To Heaven", "Echoes"(Pink Floyd) a "song"!

A "song" is more like a definition for short/simple musical pieces, while "tracks" can be anything, whether it's a 20mins long classic track or a 30mins long prog song. :)

[Jouni Helminen (jounihelminen)]

I would probably use the word "track" myself but looking at other media players "songs" seems to be the standard word.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

"Track" is preferable. That's because not all audio that ends up in user's collection is a song. It may be university lectures, voice memos, audio books, etc.

iTunes is inconsistent there too. It uses "Songs" as a column heading, but "Track #" for numbering, and "Items" when I look at the summary for a music (yes, music only) collection. They are doing worse than we are! :-)

Anyway, my vote goes to "Track".

[Paty Davila (dizzypaty)]

Let's go with 'tracks', since everyone seems to agree is a better term and users will understand both.

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

See Paty's comment. Music app should change to "Track".

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

Added unity-greeter and re-opened for Ubuntu UX because the greeter also uses "songs" but should probably use "tracks" too, for consistency. (Currently, the greeter says "X songs played today".

[Andrew Hayzen (ahayzen)]

@Michi, the "X songs played today" comes from the usermetrics inside the music-app not the unity-greeter.

[Victor Thompson (vthompson)]

The greeter that is driven by libusermetrics comes from the Music app. Or does the music scope also do this?

[Michi Henning (michihenning)]

Ah, sorry, my ignorance. It's a non-issue then. The music scope doesn't do anything like this.

[Jenkins Bot (ubuntu-core-apps-jenkins-bot)]

Fix committed into lp:music-app at revision 972, scheduled for release in music-app, milestone ota9