Better Organization for Playlist Categories

šŸ“‹Summary

Introduce a new Playlist Category tree—similar to the existing Platform Category tree—that allows users to create collapsible, customizable categories to organize playlists. This would offer a dedicated space for grouping playlists by themes (e.g. ā€œSeasonalā€, ā€œProgressā€, ā€œGenresā€) without misusing platform-based structures.

This separation would improve scalability, clarity, and usability—especially for users with many non-platform-specific playlists.


ā— Problem

The Platform Category tree in the sidebar allows you to group platforms together by collapsable platform categories as follows:

This organizes the platforms, but there’s nothing like this for unique playlists. In the Playlist tree, there’s simply the following:

This means,

  • Automatically generated MAME playlists fill up Playlist, making it difficult to use

  • For users with lots of unique playlists, Playlist becomes unmanagable

  • Platform Category can be used to achieve this, but using ā€œparentā€ categories that are not platform specific in Platform Category will create clutter


šŸ’”Proposal

A new Playlist Category tree in the dropdown. This way, you can have unique groupings for playlists that aren’t necessarily platform-specific.

The following is an example of various horror themed playlists grouped together under a custom, collapsable tree:

While using ā€œSeasonal Playlistsā€ as a ā€œparentā€ in Platform Category is possible, a Playlist Category tree keeps the Platform Category clean and focused on platform specific organization, while Playlist Category is used for more abstract categories.


āœ… Benefits

  • Categories like theme, progress, etc. can all be used as ā€œparentsā€ for grouping playlists, providing more flexibility

  • Better management of playlists that aren’t platform specific

  • Allows Platform Category to remain responsible for organizing platforms while Playlist Category is responsible for organizing playlists.

  • Provides better scalability for users with lots of unique playlists

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LaunchBox for Windows

Date

8 months ago

Author

mangaka92

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