0017693: Mass edits: improved handling of situations in which metadata within a field doesn't match - MantisBT

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0017693	MMW 5	Tagging / organizing (properties / auto-tools)	public	2021-03-24 21:51	2026-07-30 18:15

Reporter	rusty	Assigned To
Priority	urgent	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	feedback	Resolution	reopened
Product Version	5.0.1
Target Version	2027	Fixed in Version	2027

Summary	0017693: Mass edits: improved handling of situations in which metadata within a field doesn't match
Description	When performing a mass-edits and each track has different values for a given field, it would be better if: 1) The user was notified that attributes don't match by highlighting the fields in some manner. This could be achieved in the same manner as in the auto-tag dialog. There are 3 cases that would need to be handled: a) the field is empty for some of the tracks b) the attributes are identical except for case c) there are conflicting attributes (Currently there's an implicit notification by virtue of an empty field) The solution in all 3 cases, would be to Display the most common attribute for the field other than "" (in Orange to signify that a change will result) followed by an orange exclamation point (signifying the conflict). 2) The user was able to preferentially choose from among the values that have been entered. So when clicking a combio-box, rather than displaying the full alphabetic list, MM should display the attributes associated with the field (from most to least common), followed by a separator, and then the rest of the list.
Additional Information	Raised at https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=98686 Case discrepancy issue raised at 0017691 issue 1
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Fixed in build	3515

michal 2026-05-16 16:29 developer ~0081157	Fixed in build 3402.

lowlander 2026-06-30 17:40 developer ~0081545	This seems to work on 3514. 1) I think the drop down indicator should be orange as well (eg. see Title, it's grey like the standard drop-down indicator like Album). 2) The Exclamation mark should show a tooltip indicating that multiple values are associated with the selected files for this field. 3) Genre, Track# and Disc# don't have exclamation mark on multiple values. 4) It would be nice to have values used in selected files in orange too in the drop-down, to better clarify to user that these are values found in the selected files (see Genre screenshot). image.png (50,035 bytes) image.png (50,035 bytes) image-2.png (10,516 bytes) image-2.png (10,516 bytes)

michal 2026-07-01 09:12 developer ~0081554	Fixed in build 3515.

lowlander 2026-07-30 18:09 developer ~0081756 Last edited: 2026-07-30 18:15	Verified all 4 items on 3516. 5. The new Subtitle and Language fields don't show multi-value. 6. Rating has no multi-value indication. a. If there is a file with Rating value and and a file without, the Rating of the file with value is shown, no indication the other file is lacking Rating b. If 2 files with different Rating are selected, no Rating is shown, no indication of a multi-value 7. There is no indication that there are multiple values in Comment, it's shown blank. 8. No indication of multi-value for Start time, Stop time, Play counter, Skip counter, Track volume and Album volume. Note that users may select 2 copies of the same file so there is a use to being able to see multi-value.