I thought I would throw out a handful of suggestions for some common features I would love to see in MC that are available else where in other products, or other competitors websites. I do apologize that some of these have been stated and addressed before. These are just observations I have noticed from using many different programs and visiting your forums a few times a week.

General Recommendations

1. Some code optimization.

Some areas that would be greatly improved would be using standard php opening and closing instead of the short tags. By default the secured recommended php settings has short tags disabled. Having to enable them can cause issues with other programs, especially on web servers that support multiple scripting and programming languages other than just php.

Another area that could be improved is with the javascript/ajax. There seems to be quite a few users having compatibility issues when they have the random carousel player, or the flash players enabled.

Finally just adding minor bug fixes that have been reported and a work arounds found. Like the song tab fix integrated into the update.

2. Improved Joomla Integration, especially for search.

You have this great component built on a powerful CMS, joomla. It would be great to see it integrated a bit tighter into joomla. One feature that is missing is the ability to use the default joomla search with MC. I understand there is an optional add-on for Album search, but it would be really nice if there was also add-ons for Artist and Song searches.

Another feature that would be nice is to be able to use some of the default joomla text format tools. Mainly the ones there are found at the bottom of the joomla editor. Like the "Read more..." tool.

3. More structured Artist page.

You currently have a very detailed album page. A lot of nice information can be set there. It would be nice to see something like that for the artist page as well. Currently the artist page is fairly bare and does not contain very many fields. Some additional fields, like artist tags, similar artists, years active, etc, would be greatly appreciated for that page. Especially if they can be used as search modifiers like you have for the album page.

4. Tagging for Artists

This kind of goes with request 3. There really is very little focus on the artists. MC focuses very heavily on the albums which is nice. It would be helpful to have some of that power for the artists as well. As mentioned above, some artist info that would be nice, Country (you already have that), Genres, Years Active, and Artist Tags (a generic tag field that can be used for anything, similar to what you have on the albums page).

5. Better component support for Windows, especially for file paths.

One issue I run across frequently with MC, and have seen one or two others have problems with, is window's file paths. Linux file paths work great with the / slash, but not so well with the windows paths that use the \\ backslash. Some of the addons for MC along with some parts of discogs, only work by doing crazy things like using triple back slashes in the path. ie c:\\\\\\music\\\\\\cry. I created a post a while back on this, and have seen one or two other topics created since on it.

6. Improved discogs support.

Would be nice if the discog results are filtered. So if an artist is Queen, and the album is A Night at the Opera, it would only return results that have names like Queen in the artist AND album names like A Night at the Opera in the albums. Not sure if this is directly possible with the API as I have not looked into it, but should be likely at the very least by filtering the results returned.

7. Multiple Genre support

I love how you have the genres setup. The hierarchy system works great. The only downfall is you only allow one genre to be assigned to a given album. This is painful. Most albums I have require multiple genres to correctly identify them. Having to create new genres which are just a combo of multiple existing genres is not at all effective. It would be nice that instead of a drop down on the album creation page, you had a list field where one can hold down ctrl key, and select multiple genres for it. Keep the awesome hierarchy system, just add the ability to select more than one item in the list. This would be similar to the "Types" or "Tags" options under "Extra Information" that you have on the album creation page.