Album List Filtering

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   I like the new album list filtering provided in the Top 100 area though I think too much is now hidden. To improve this area I have a couple of suggestions...

1. Set up PA to allow users to create a personal default preference for filtering on ratings, etc. so that each user can get a personaly filtered list by default and, where no user preferences exist, default the output data to the PA defined parameters.

2. Provide a link to allow users to select this list-type view of albums that have zero ratings. These albums are difficult to view in a list format with cover pix now that the album has to have a rating to get included in the Top 100 listings. The use of genre, recording type, year and country will allow this list to be of use for research purposes.  

Cheers,

Coops 

Edited by T.Rox - May 09 2008 at 21:38

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T.Rox Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 06 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 9455	Topic: Album List Filtering Posted: May 09 2008 at 21:37
	I like the new album list filtering provided in the Top 100 area though I think too much is now hidden. To improve this area I have a couple of suggestions... 1. Set up PA to allow users to create a personal default preference for filtering on ratings, etc. so that each user can get a personaly filtered list by default and, where no user preferences exist, default the output data to the PA defined parameters. 2. Provide a link to allow users to select this list-type view of albums that have zero ratings. These albums are difficult to view in a list format with cover pix now that the album has to have a rating to get included in the Top 100 listings. The use of genre, recording type, year and country will allow this list to be of use for research purposes. Cheers, Coops Edited by T.Rox - May 09 2008 at 21:38
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Logan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 38447	Posted: July 18 2008 at 16:46
	I like these ideas. I've wanted a link to allow zero ratings too... In fact, I haven't been able to get any albums with zero ratings in the past (even when results were limited). I did a topic yesterday, but just noticed this one so deleted it, so I'll respost here: Currently we have these: Filter: Minimum Number of Ratings Filter: Minimum Average Rating Value NOTE: The values do not seem to work at 0. I wish we had these as an added feature: Filter: Maximum Number of Ratings Filter: Maximum Average Rating Value Before anyone asks, "That kind of defeats the value of a TOP list, doesn't it?", I just think it would be a useful search feature for finding unrated and lesser rated albums. A filter number of "reviews" specifically would be useful to. And a question: Of course there is this where one can get a comprehensive list for a year: http://www.progarchives.com/albums-year.asp?year=2008 Is there a way to easily search all non-reviewed albums at the moment? One can't see the non-rated albums for 2008 because one cannot utilise a minimum number of ratings and minimum average rating value of 0 (or more correctly it should be for no ratings which would qualify no average rating). It used to be that one could view the top 5000 albums by manually inputting the number in the url, now one can use the filter option for searching many reviews, but one still can't get the unrated ones to list there (or at least one couldn't). I really wish one could filter maximum number of ratings and maximum average rating value as well as being able to use the other filters to help search for non-rated albums.
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T.Rox Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 06 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 9455	Posted: July 19 2008 at 05:24
	I like the idea of the maximum filters, Logan It certainly would certainly help in some of the searches I have done in the album area.
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