Song Icons in maintained area (bug?)

[SwordMage]

I entered a /bug about this but thought it would be worthwhile bringing it up for discussion (and to prod the devs, perhaps).

There is a generic icon that shows up in the maintained effects area when a song is playing (the treble cleff). It would be very useful if the icon for the melody of the song was displayed instead. This would allow us to quickly see what is playing without having to mouse over to see the tooltip.

[Iendan]

i agree, that would be most useful

[Ysharros]

The whole "where a song displays" issue could use a bit of cleaning up IMO, though I'm not sure how simple or worthwhile it would be from a dev point of view. I do agree with the above, definitely, though DroxUI provides me with a few more tools to see what I have running when (and what's really running, as oppposed to pretending to run since I last crossed a chunk line -- though this one is well-documented and will get squished eventually).

Another thing I've seen is the effect the constant reapplication of civic diplomacy bonuses have on songs. Let me see if I can explain this coherently -- say I have Mellarien's (or variant thereof) up, one that has a graphical effect when you turn it on, it'll "replay" the effect every 5 seconds or so whenever I'm in an area with civic dip buffs. It seems to be because the CivD buffs are reapplied at intervals while you're in that area, and somehow it seems to trigger the reapplication of the song, too. It's easy enough to change to a different song (one that doesn't have a "turned on" animation/sound), but it would be nice if we didn't have to.

If this is not a known issue (I've not seen it mentioned but I don't frequent bard-specific sites much) I won't bother bugging it. If it isn't... I will!

[Iyela]

I agree that we need icons other than the treble clef. I've played a bard to 12 only, and I've gone nuts mousing over the clef to make sure what song was going.