Guys,

I'm absolutely hating the way the Media Library is viewed.  

Tracks are firstly hidden in artist folders, then hidden in album folders.  When looking for a track I have to open each album's folder to find it (I never know the album name - people don't buy albums these days, they download individual songs).

No tracks display until you open each album.  In order to find a song I may have to open 10 albums or more.

When clicking on an Artists name, could all their tracks not appear below without all the hunting through album folders?  The processing time to do that is really insignificant compared to all the clicking around I'm having to do at the moment.

KILL THE ALBUM FOLDERS!  Or at least don't require them to be opened.

Also, how about having a folder of recently added songs?  It'd be dead useful.  After I've uploaded 20 tracks I tend to have forgotten at least 10 of the artists/songs (and certainly all the album names).

Alternatively, come up with some other clever arse way of seeing the new stuff - e.g. sort/search/view by date or something.

I was never a fan of Live365, but one good thing there was you could see all your tracks, sort them by date/title etc AND the new songs would show in bold. No good if everything's hidden in separate folders though.

Tracks are firstly hidden in artist folders, then hidden in album folders.  When looking for a track I have to open each album's folder to find it (I never know the album name - people don't buy albums these days, they download individual songs).

If you search by track name you don't need to drill down through the artist/albums.  Or you can use folder view and organize your tracks however you like.

When clicking on an Artists name, could all their tracks not appear below without all the hunting through album folders?

Unfortunately that's not likely to be practical for performance reasons.  Remember that we're not dealing with a desktop application here -- we're dealing with the limits of both 1) the JavaScript parsers in today's browsers, and 2) the issue of bandwidth (from the perspectives of both the service provider and the user on a slow connection).

Certain versions of IE can bog down if you try to display even just one or two hundred tracks, so for an artist with a lot of releases (or a scenario we regularly encounter wherein "artists" and "albums" actually correspond to different designations of tracks created within an organization, such as prerecorded radio shows, interviews, etc., where there could amount to thousands of tracks) having it display all of an artist's tracks by default could be a Very Bad Thing(tm).

It might be possible to consider something like this as a configuration option, but likely not as a default, anyway.

Also, how about having a folder of recently added songs?  It'd be dead useful.

Very much agreed, and already on our development roadmap.

Alternatively, come up with some other clever arse way of seeing the new stuff - e.g. sort/search/view by date or something.

Yup, what's really on our development roadmap is a project to find the most "clever arse way" of displaying recently added tracks.  We haven't settled on a specific approach yet, although a simple folder is the most likely candidate.