0015400: Auto-tag: ability to automatically restrict / more easily edit suggested genres - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0015400	MMW 5	Tagging / organizing (properties / auto-tools)	public	2019-01-28 20:43	2019-09-24 04:14

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	reopened
Product Version	5.0
Target Version	5.0	Fixed in Version	5.0

Summary	0015400: Auto-tag: ability to automatically restrict / more easily edit suggested genres
Description	The genres suggested by MusicBrainz are quite useful, but also often contain a bit too much e.g. For a track by the Beach Boys: Rock; Am pop; Baroque pop; Oldies; Pop; Surf; Contemporary pop/rock; Rock roll; Rock_pop; Sunshine pop; Pop/rock For an Aretha Franklin track: Deep soul; Soul; Pop; Gospel; Funk / soul; Club; Soundtrack; Album rock; Rhythm & blues; Am pop; Psychedelic/garage; Early pop/rock; Female vocal; Folk; Folk-pop; Folk-rock; Disco; Contemporary r b; Contemporary pop/rock; Pop-soul; Pop/rock; Early r&b; R b; R&b; Blues; Rhythm blues; Rock & roll; Singer/songwriter; Soft rock; Black gospel; Baroque pop; Soundtracks; Stage & screen Given that there's no real meaning to the order of the suggested Genres, we can't restrict the number of suggestions arbitrarily. I would suggest: 1) Providing an improved means of including/removing suggested Genres. e.g. if the user clicks the Genres field --> a dialog/combo box opens in place allowing the user to check/uncheck all the proposed genres and/or add new ones 2) In the dialog/combo box, only pre-check Genres that already exist in the user's collection (note: the list of Genres that appears in the auto-tag dialog would only list those Genres that are selected). 3) In the Auto-tag dialog, highlight the Genre field in some manner (e.g. with an 'edit' icon (preferred) or exclamation point ) if the recommendation also contains suggestions that aren't selected because they don't exist in the user's collection. Note: if this is too complex/risky to implement for 5.0, then the simplest short-term fix would be to limit proposed Genres to those already in the users collection.
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Attached Files	15400_duplicate_genres.png (113,766 bytes) 15400_duplicate_genres.png (113,766 bytes)

Fixed in build	2201

petr 2019-02-18 12:41 developer ~0052682	Item 1&2 implemented. For item 3 i'm not sure if it will not be confusing as exclamation point means something else for other fields (it is different than original value) ?

rusty 2019-03-13 06:06 administrator ~0052949	Re. item 3) another possibility would be to display the unchecked items in grey (disabled) following all the checked items. What do you think?

petr 2019-03-13 16:02 developer ~0052959	Fixed

rusty 2019-03-22 20:43 administrator ~0053070	Tested 2167. Works quite well! Remaining issues: 1) No means of adding new Genres / editing existing ones 2) In some cases (probably related to 0015563), suggested Genres appear in duplicate (see the attached image below)

petr 2019-03-25 11:58 developer ~0053092 Last edited: 2019-03-25 12:01	Item 1: i'm not sure how to do that in in-place editing (as checkbox list must be read-only) ... user can edit/add new genres in track properties Item 2 fixed

rusty 2019-03-28 20:59 administrator ~0053127	1 can't it be read-write until the checklist is opened via the dropdown? And then revert back to read-write once the user collapses the checklist?

petr 2019-09-23 16:21 developer ~0054806	Fixed

rusty 2019-09-24 04:14 administrator ~0054818	Verified 2201.