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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001768 | MMW v4 | Properties/Auto-Tools | public | 2005-01-28 19:05 | 2005-01-31 01:33 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | immediate | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Fixed in Version | 2.3 | ||||
| Summary | 0001768: Auto-tag from Amazon: No way to tag metadata without changing track number | ||||
| Description | Very often, the user may want to tag a track with looked up metadata _even if the actual album for the track cannot be found_. In these cases, the user wants to change the metadata _without_ modifying the track#. Currently, however, this is impossible because the Track selector is also the Track# enabler. A very simple means of fixing this is to: -Add '[x] #' immediately to the left of '[x] Tracks:' (note: it would be even better if we could change Tracks: to Track Name) -Change the logic so that the setting described above controls whether track# is updated, instead of the checkboxes at the bottom which are used exclusively to choose whether metadata should be imported into any particular track. | ||||
| Additional Information | Described by Risser at: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3276 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 835 | ||||
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After review of the forum post and your suggestion I agree that there's a problem, but I think that an easier solution will fix the problem and will be more usable. The point is that it generally doesn't make sense to change track names and track numbers individually, their values are tied together and change of one of them should also change the other. Therefore I think that the UI can stay as is, the only fix would be that Track# field is modified _only_ if Tracks checkbox is checked. It fixes the user's problem and doesn't introduce any confusion. |
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I agree that generally, the values of track # will change in concert with Track Name, however: -This is not _always_ the case -The implementation that you describe makes it confusing in that the user would not know how to enable the Track# to be written (i.e. the current UI paradigm implies to the user that enabling/disabling of particular fields is accomplished in the top section, whereas enabling/disabling of _Tracks_ is accomplished in the bottom section). Summary: if there are technical reasons for implementing your solution in the short run, then we can do so but it will only partially solve the problem, and will still cause confusion. |
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Fixed in build 835. - Track# field is modified _only_ if Tracks checkbox is checked. I don't think it's confusing, I would say that it rather prevents confusion caused by two check boxes related to tracks. I really think that it generally doesn't make sense to modify track titles and track #s separately. In case of frequent complaints we can change it... |
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Verified 835. |
