Some more little observations/suggestions (1 Viewer)

tomtom21000

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  • April 22, 2004
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    After using MPTagThat some more I have some more little observations and suggestions:

    1. There is no delete action in the context menu or the menu for a song. You can delete it with kb press "del". Nevertheless, the context entry is there for the tree-view. So it is a little bit unconsistent.

    2. I miss a context menu entry "select all" (Tracks). Sth. which I need rather often.

    3. If you hover over the columns the mouse pointer indicates (<->) that you could can change the size of the columns, while actually that doesn't work. Would be handy, if it worked.

    4. I found the possibility to show/hide columns for the main view. If the order of the columns could be changed that would be a great addition.

    5. In German it says "zur Abspielliste hinzufügen" in the ribbon whereas in the context menu it is "zur Playlist hinzufügen" - not consistent/very minor

    6. Equally minor: In the ribbon there is a typo in "Alle Kommentare entferenen"

    7. When retrieving coverart sometimes a dialog pops up and says "multiple covers found". It would be easier if you additionally could display the main album tags the dialog refers to. There is no way to browse the list while the dialog is there. If you tag a lot of songs you are not always sure which one is the right one. Sometimes these are completely different albums not only different editions of the same album.

    8. It seems that sometimes a song added to the playlist is locked and you can't save changes. This is also valid if you stop playing of the song before doing changes.

    9. I miss a little bit an easy way to play a selected song without adding it to the playlist first and scrolling through the playlist songs.

    10. One thing I liked from mp3tag: If you select a couple of songs and edit the tags manually, it would provide you with a dropdown with the current different tags of the selected songs plus -keep- and -delete-
    For example: I had songs tagged as artist "Wedding Present" and some "The Wedding Present". Having a dropdown you could easily change all tracks to "The Wedding Present" without typing it. This comes sometimes handy.

    That's all I remember right now. Maybe you like to implement the one or the other thing.

    tomtom
     

    hwahrmann

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  • September 15, 2004
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    Had some time on the weekend. :)

    1. There is no delete action in the context menu or the menu for a song. You can delete it with kb press "del". Nevertheless, the context entry is there for the tree-view. So it is a little bit unconsistent.

    Context menu entry has been added

    2. I miss a context menu entry "select all" (Tracks). Sth. which I need rather often.

    You could do:
    1. Ctrl+A
    2. As a default all rows are selected, when nothing is selected and you choose a function.
    3. Use the NEW context menu entry. :)

    3. If you hover over the columns the mouse pointer indicates (<->) that you could can change the size of the columns, while actually that doesn't work. Would be handy, if it worked.

    This works as long as NO row is selected.
    Once a row is elected, for some reason it doesn't work anymore. Seems to be .Net related.

    4. I found the possibility to show/hide columns for the main view. If the order of the columns could be changed that would be a great addition.

    This is already present.
    Just click on a Column Header and drag it to the desired location.
    The new position will be saved when ending the program.

    As above. It only works, if NO row is selected.

    5. In German it says "zur Abspielliste hinzufügen" in the ribbon whereas in the context menu it is "zur Playlist hinzufügen" - not consistent/very minor

    Corrected

    6. Equally minor: In the ribbon there is a typo in "Alle Kommentare entferenen"

    Corrected

    7. When retrieving coverart sometimes a dialog pops up and says "multiple covers found". It would be easier if you additionally could display the main album tags the dialog refers to. There is no way to browse the list while the dialog is there. If you tag a lot of songs you are not always sure which one is the right one. Sometimes these are completely different albums not only different editions of the same album.

    The dialog shows now the Artist, Album and File Name.


    8. It seems that sometimes a song added to the playlist is locked and you can't save changes. This is also valid if you stop playing of the song before doing changes.

    Songs which were locked, because of Playback are now released on Save.
    If a song, which is saved, is currently playing, playback is stopped in order to free the song and make a succesfull save

    9. I miss a little bit an easy way to play a selected song without adding it to the playlist first and scrolling through the playlist songs.

    When you add a song(s) to the playlist and the Player is idle, it starts to play with the first song in the selection.

    10. One thing I liked from mp3tag: If you select a couple of songs and edit the tags manually, it would provide you with a dropdown with the current different tags of the selected songs plus -keep- and -delete-
    For example: I had songs tagged as artist "Wedding Present" and some "The Wedding Present". Having a dropdown you could easily change all tracks to "The Wedding Present" without typing it. This comes sometimes handy.

    Feature has been added to the Multiple Tag Edit dialog.
    If there are different Artists / AlbumArtists it shows a Combo Box, instead of a Text box.


    All the changes above will be part of a new release in this week.
     

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