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0016631MMW 5Playlists (Auto) / Search / Filterspublic2022-09-14 14:39
Reporterpeke Assigned To 
PriorityhighSeveritytweakReproducibilityN/A
Status assignedResolutionduplicate 
Product Version5.0 
Target Version5.2 
Summary0016631: Add option to trim leading/ending space character from metadata like ignore THE option
DescriptionIn case that SPACE characters is in front of playlist names we should add context option on playlist root Tree node to trim leading/ending space character from playlist names.

It should not clutter Context menu. Maybe even adding it in "Manage Library" so that it can be cleaned for other Tree nodes and values?
Or in options for playlist ( eg. "Trim Leading space in playlist names") as some users still want to leading space to influence sorting.
Additional Informationhttp://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=96584
IPV-293-83801
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Fixed in build

Relationships

duplicate of 0016653 closedLudek MMW 5 Automatically Trim start/end Space char from Metadata on file import 
related to 0014599 closedLudek MMW v4 Track Properties: We should trim start/end TAB character from Metadata 
related to 0016851 closedLudek MMW 5 Inline edit of Playlist name in Tree adds leading space 

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rusty

2020-05-22 17:42

administrator   ~0058188

I don't think we should add a config entry for such an obscure usecase.

We could always truncate spaces that appear at the beginning of an entry, but that might get in the way of users that enter a space on purpose.

peke

2020-05-24 12:17

developer   ~0058241

Last edited: 2020-05-24 12:28

While testing other bugs I have found out that there is a need for Global Trim Space on tracks Metadata.

Space influence sort also and also Duplicate Titles fail because There is a space in front of title/artist.

I guess it is very useful if it is added like Ignore THE and it can use same dialog. That way users can easily exclude some and include others.

EDIT: MM4/5 do not allow adding Space in tags (eg. for inline edit, properties and auto tag from filename) and it trims it immediately. But do not Trim it automatically if file tags already contain it.

peke

2020-05-24 15:17

developer   ~0058253

Last edited: 2020-05-24 15:20

It is possible that this would also be fixed with auto trimming at 0016653 ?

So only question is left if and we would add this feature or not. and even yes it is lower priority.

Ludek

2020-05-25 10:49

developer   ~0058258

Last edited: 2020-05-25 11:50

I see that in course of 0014599 we already added
- trimming of title (so that [Files to Edit > Duplicate titles] shows all duplicities)
- trimming TAB from all fields (original issue in 0014599)
- trimming spaces and CR+LF from album, artist, genre fields and thus solves the grouping inconsistencies described in my note 0014599:0049614

Based on my tests in 2250:
- for the newly scanned track the track fields like title/artist/ablum are auto-trimmed in MM5
- for already existing tracks it shows track title with leading space in Properties dialog (until edited), but not in file listing (like Peke's example with his DB above)
- playlist names are not trimmed on import and also MM5 allows to add leading space to playlists (originally reported in 0016631 )

So the current issue are:
1) we don't allow adding leading/trailing spaces in track title field when editing, but show the leading space for already imported files in Properties
=> we should either allow leading space and show it properly in listings or disallow leading space completelly (some pros and cons already discussed in 0014599 in the past)
2) we allows leading space to be added to the playlist name and we also show the leading space in the playlist listing
=> we might want this to unify with track title, but some users enters the space on purpose (e.g. when they want some playlists to be on the top of the list)