Add 'artist' and other metadata as subitems under the library sidebar item

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Reported by: raffitea
Date: 2011-05-17T07:01:53Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp783833

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This idea is pretty useful and has been posted via the forums: http://mixxx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2585

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Commented by: raffitea
Date: 2011-05-17T07:03:52Z

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Assigning to myself to not forget about it. Any other person is welcome to do the task, too.

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2011-05-17T07:30:59Z

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Personally i do not think it is a good idea.

We should go and use the idea of smart crates instead. Once that functionality is implemented, it is easy to come up with some default crates e.g. "artists". Furthermore the user can define its own criteria.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/661460

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Commented by: raffitea
Date: 2011-05-17T07:49:48Z

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You have convinced me, Jus :-)

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Commented by: sayuuk
Date: 2012-04-09T10:23:03Z

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While I do think "smart crates" would be nice, I think the proposed "Artist/Album/Genre" categories are a much easier fix.

You can still extend them with "smart crates" at some point, but I assume the developing work is much less extensive for the "browsing extensions"!

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2013-09-23T06:59:16Z

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This is a possible solution for Bug #⁠1228789