Show by Album Artist

[jSherz]

Hi,

I have a lot of albums that are collaborations of different artists which clutters my album view. Could you add a feature to view albums by album artist?

[admin]

Thanks for the request.

It's possible to see albums by artist now, but each album will have full song list, not just that artist's songs.

Current dev. builds show only artist's songs in artist albums and this will be in the next update on the market.

[JonBoy]

Thanks for the request.

It's possible to see albums by artist now, but each album will have full song list, not just that artist's songs.

Current dev. builds show only artist's songs in artist albums and this will be in the next update on the market.

Thanks for the program, it's really excellent.

This feature "album by artist" seems to help some people, but it doesn't really get me past the problems I have with music players on Android. It's already available on PowerPro (which I also bought hoping implemented it differently than it actually did). For example, if you buy an Eminem album--saying nothing of my taste in music--you have an album where pretty much every song has a different artist. So track one is Eminem and Obie Trice, track two is Eminem and Wayne Newton, track three is by Dr. Dre and Eminem, so on and so forth. Now, when I list "Album by Artist" I have an additional 15 artists. Throw in a couple of 80s compilations, and now my list is unmanageable. The same happens for sorting by "Artist."

Listing by "Album" helps somewhat, but I have too many albums and a bad memory for what Albums are called. Possibly I have a broken through process, but I sort music by the artist in my head; so if I want to listen to Early Days - Led Zeppelin, I have to struggle to remember is it Greatest Hits, Early Hits, Hits?. I just don't remember album names that well, possibly because there are so many more of them.

I find it very difficult to use music programs in Android the way they're structured. Album Artist solves this problem by limiting the number of possible selections to an small, manageable list of artists in a group that seems easy to manage. Right now I have either several hundred albums--I have a 32GB card in my phone--or several hundred artists; album artist distills this list down into maybe a third of that number and makes my music much more accessible. I don't know why other people don't seem to have this problem, or maybe they just don't put a premium on accessibility; I find it crucial if I'm linking the phone to the car speakers, for example.

Anyway, Poweramp is an excellent program I'm very happy to have bought. The UI is definitely the best of all of the music players I've tried. And the library system is great too--I love being able to restrict myself to certain folders so my Car Talk podcasts don't end up in my music player. I keep wishing for "Album Artist" so that I can really take advantage of that new feature. Thanks.