At present, an individual music file within the application is referred to as a “song”. In Plexamp, it’s a “track”. Though I realise this is an incredibly niche feature, I would like to be able to change labels in the UI to match the usage in Plexamp.
Problem solved:
It’s only a problem for those who don’t like the use of the word “song”, which probably isn’t very many people as the term seems to have caught on following iTunes’ usage.
Brought benefits:
As this is a matter of taste and personal preference it would only be a benefit to similar users. But, for such users, it would make the application more pleasant to use. Personally, I switched back to Plexamp after a day for this reason (strange as that may seem).
Other application solutions:
I’m not aware of any other application which deals with this unusual issue.
Additional description and context:
Thanks for your time reading this request, and apologies if it’s a bit of a nuisance.
This is not possible to offer a setting for that there’s way too many strings related to those terms.
With that said, there’s currently usage of both terms in the app, so a cleanup might be nice to be done.
I do not have a strong opinion and would tend to say that track is generally a better term as more generic but at the same time, users will always be users and may be lost.
I guess it would need some more user comments on this to decide if a change that late would be impactfull or not.
Thanks for the quick reply.
That’s an interesting article but I’m not sure I’d agree with it. My music collection is almost entirely instrumental with a great proportion of that originally composed without any lyrics or intent to have any. But, it’s not classical so I can’t easily use one of the few classically-oriented apps.
Of course, pop music is dominant and that’s mostly vocal, so I can see why “song” caught on (Apple choosing that term would help).
It’s a shame it’s too difficult to allow a choice.
As for all Symfonium use track makes more sense and the term is used in a few places. But Song is also unfortunately very common and since it’s already present changing this late is not a non risky decision.
Hence why most people needs to comment here is they agree to fully transition to only using track.
Apologies, I missed the humour.
I agree that this would be a risky decision. Unfortunately, my aversion to ‘song’ means that I have no idea as to how much such a change to ‘track’ throughout would affect users. Having said that, a cursory look didn’t turn up any evidence of Plexamp users complaining.
Should you get sufficient information and should it lead you in the ‘track’ direction I’d be back in a shot, though.
As an aside, if I had the time to retire from my job I’d try writing a music player myself, not only due to this issue but also so I could sort out searching for albums by sidemen or instruments.
Since both “Songs” and “Tracks” are commonly understood as the same thing (with minor differences based on personal experience and preference) imho it does not matter which one is used.
After using 10+ audio players over the last 2 decades (with different naming schemes) I no longer care what it’s called as long as it is clear what is meant.
I don’t think it’s worth the effort as there is a high likelyhood that someone comes along after you’ve changed it to “tracks” who wants “songs” back.
If you can make it consistent within Symfonium (either as Songs or Tracks) with a reasonable amount of effort, that would be the ideal solution imho.
@knirirr, I just had to uncheck 52 checkboxes for 52 strings that there is no change in translation necessary (in German, I already used a term that applies to both song or track). So next time you make such an “innocent” request, think about the poor people out there…
No, honestly, that was a good and fitting proposal!
