Marcus's dashboard

I know this topic exists, but with the point on how tagging could/should be done.

From there I would draw the Conclusion: IT IS POSSIBLE, but some real programmer should decide where to write the data.
(to me it seems best to use an empty field in id3-tag system, at least for mp3's, and use comma separated labels, no data lost, other players can show the tag field, with all the comma separated labels in them as well, although they can't use them.)

So my point is how we, the users, would make use of it.
So here are three suggestions: maybe some others like it, maybe they can be improved and maybe they can be realised one or another way on one or another day.

To me it is absolutly certain that multiple tags will come to Media Players as well.
When I first used a Media Player (10 years ago) I was already complaining about this.
But when I look now at the whole web2.0 thing, those systems became so common.
Blogs, News, Videos, Online Streams, and Songs on Last.fm...

It is more than the time now to teach Media Players multiple tagging systems!
And Songbird I like most, so I hope our bird will win the race!!!

My suggestion:

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general point: beeing able to use those labels for filtering the song list or hopefully even in combination with the filter pane (so that one can make a pre-selection via labels and only selected labels are passed on to the filter pane where one has a nice overlook over albums/Artist etc. that fit the label selection. My library is not to big alltogether 32GB but still i find it hard to search trough it)

1.line with label fields and drop down menu to select

simply having a small line with one field (to start of) clicking on it one can choose labels via drop down menu, and then have the possibility to select another label as well (if there are songs with both labels)

2. big list

just a list with all labels, where one can select them maybe by checkboxes, in the very left panel (under Playlist)
and the ability of alphabetical scrolling. just mark a label (1 click) then hit a key (letter o) and the mark scrolls to the first label starting with "o" or something similar.
double clicking the label will activate the checkbox.


3. a "cloud of words" (or better a "swarm of birds")

a label cloud, but with two options and an input field:
option1: size by total number of label (so that labels given to most songs are biggest)
option2: size by label selection count (so that labels i selected most often are biggest)
input field: again alphabetical selection, input "a" shows only labels starting with "a" ... ... ...
selecting a label is simply done by clicking on it, then it's color is changing (or it "flows" to a line at the bottom or top, where all selected labels fly to, just clicking on them there makes them fly back into the cloud again)
and maybe again an option to show only unlabeled, only labeled, only selected labels.

and instead a cloud of Birds it would be cool to have a "swarm of Birds"
little songbird-logo-style birds with the label names on them.

selecting a label makes the bird fly to a tree and sit down on a branch. (and/or change its feathers)
looking quite happy.
clicking on it again (unselecting the label) makes the bird turn his head towards the user, making an angry face and fly away to the swarm again.
hehehe
:-)))