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Since my last remarks on this topic, I've understood one thing: making the number of column higher would not be a good idea for the neat and efficient display we all know and love. Got it.

This said, I'm still surprised why some things are not done. Are they considered useless according their effort/benefit ratio? Maybe it is more complicated than I'd imagine. My approach is, if the sql table already is here and full, fetching data couldn't be that hard.

My complaint is about the music section mainly but one could generalize:

In the sort field:
- I'd like being able to sort alphabetically by author. Last time I asked I was answered it's simple to input an author in the filter. But if I don't know a particular author I'm looking for, I can't

In the filter field:
- Adding two dates fields, so I can display items that are in-between dates. Makes it way easier to sort things according to date, for example if I wanted to compare items from a particular period in terms of authors, #of download, etc.
- Not as important, but I only recently found I can access earlier versions of a submission. A little filter that discriminates updated items would help locate them.

And finally I'd find it great if a feature allowed to download a .csv of the tables. I've tried saving the .html page, copy-paste to Excel, I've even hired a business chrome app in doing it, but all of them were unsatisfactory.

Thanks for bearing with me here.
Though these are all nice features, I simply can't imagine them being useful for a large enough number of people - for the most part, it's an effort/benefit problem, as you said.

Originally posted by qantuum
And finally I'd find it great if a feature allowed to download a .csv of the tables.

Is there any particular reason why you need this? As it stands it's not likely I'll add it as a site feature anytime soon, but I can make a .csv for you if there's something you want to do with the data.
oh, that would be nice. but alas, it does not serve my purpose if the csv only is generated once.

Since it is not possible, there won't be another iteration of this request, I promise.

What I really wanted was, to be able to sort musics by author, compare their number of downloads or rating according to time periods (i.e what's the music with highest # of downloads, that was submitted in 2012).

And I also wanted to be able to compare my own top 50 song download count from one month to another, these are the reasons why I thought taking the table in my Microsoft Excel would be nice.

I even tried some "table extractor" google app, but I would have to manually click each of the 100+ pages of music to extract them.

I'll stick to my latest solution which is displaying my top 50 song each month and downloading the html page, it ain't best but at least I can have some follow-up on my works.

Thanks for replying.

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