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anna marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Album art media view ideas". anna and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

anna started following the idea "A new way to display browser tabs in Songbird" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "What's your vision of our future?" in Songbird.

anna marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "What's your vision of our future?". anna and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

anna started following the idea "Interface redesign ideas from Firefox 3.7 and 4 mockups" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "Standardized artist image database from last.fm" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "Album art as a column option" in Songbird.

anna marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Songbird should have a splash screen". anna and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

anna started following the idea "Google Summer of Code" in Songbird.

anna marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Last.fm-like multiple tag system". anna and 8 other people think it's one of the best replies.

anna started following the idea "Last.fm-like multiple tag system" in Songbird.

anna replied on June 28, 2009 21:30 to the idea "Starting a new Add-On Project" in Songbird:

I'm not useful in the coding department, but I really wanted to let you know how much I like the feather you created. The design is so smooth and simple, but still very realistic. I love Songbird's add-ons and how they let me interact with the program, but I still long for a cleaner-looking interface. I hope that this is possible, and that someone with coding abilities decides to make this happen!

anna started following the idea "Quick Find imporvements" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "Awesome Library Bar!" in Songbird.

Murphy's reply to "Awesome Library Bar!" was just promoted to the most useful! anna and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

I have been thinking about how this could work, and I've come up with some ideas. I added images to the search results to help you visually find what you are looking for. Albums and songs use cover artwork, and the artist uses last.fm artwork.



The results could include artists, albums, songs, and playlists. I based some of the ideas in this mockup off of Google's Quick Search Box. However, Quick Search Box uses the "more items" method like in your mockup, but I just feel like it makes you do too much unnecessary navigating. In this mockup I use a scrollbar like Firefox's awesome bar does instead. I also added the option to navigate into the items. This is why there are arrows at the right side of the results. You could use the keyboard arrows to go back and forth. For example, hitting right on an artist would display all of the albums.



After hitting right on an album or playlist, it could present you with the list of songs. At any time you could hit enter to play the item. You could even hit right on a song to have some options instead of just playing it. This could help people quickly perform tasks on a song such as adding it to the now playing list, editing the metadata, rating it, and tagging it. Add-ons could even add new tasks such as finding lyrics or a tab of the song.



edit - Damn, I always find some mistake in my mockups after I post them. Pretend I actually have a playlist called "Acoustic Beatles Songs". :P

anna marked one of Murphy's replies in Songbird as useful. Murphy replied to the idea "Google Quick Search Box plugin for Songbird".

anna marked one of tommm's replies in Songbird as useful. tommm replied to the idea "Album art media view ideas". anna and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

anna started following the idea ""Limit to X albums" or "X artists" in Smart Playlists?" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "Allow Concerts to have multiple locations" in Songbird.

anna started following the idea "A listening history page with better integration and more information than last.fm" in Songbird.