Hi J River,
haven't done tagging for quite a while and after spending about an hour's work I must say MC 9.1 has not become better than 9.0!
Here the problems I had:
1) After selecting a number of images and wanting to change a tag from Honolulu to Hawaii, I click on the quick tag icon, then selected the Hawaii tag. But then, what do I have to do to make the changes happen? Nothing happens! Could not figure it out! Probably clicking on some pane, but it is not obvious or intuitive at all!
2) If I make changes in the properties window they do not seem to work any longer! Does it mean I cannot use the properties window any longer to make tag changes?
3) Please, please, find a way to save view schemes in some places that survive any playing around with betas and that they can be restored if they get lost. It is not true that it takes just a few minutes to recreate them!
If you have 6 different view schemes with images and you only want 3-4 fields displayed in the content pane, you have to click off all the fields you do not want to see such as bitrate, duration, track, etc (all music related fields). And that's a lot of tedious clicking!
At least with view scheme groups you could move all those schemes below this group and change the view settings for all view schemes below in one go. I do not want to do this again and again. So this is a very practical reason to reintroduce view scheme groups again.
Best would be to have different default content views according to media type. It really does not make any sense to see fields such as bitrate, track, duration etc. with images!
4) When I add a new view scheme it does not get sorted below Media Library right away as it used to be. I have to restart MC9.
And in general I would like to make the following bold comment:
Are you still listening to us?
After the release of MC9, many MC power-users made lots of request to improve the quality of the product, many times probably just minor changes that could have been fixed easily, but you seem to ignore those requests altogether. OK, I know, sometimes small requests are a lot of work and sometimes big requests are just minor code change! I know that from my own experience.
How can I prove this statement? Well, people, beg and beg and beg to get certain features back or to fix certain things. I have been on this board for almost 2 years now, and they never did this in the past!
Also, it would be nice to get a certain roadmap about MC9 development for the future. Almost any big company does that, it gives users a certain confidence about using the product in the future. Users make big investments in time and effort to properly use the product and if things change all the time it creates insecurity. Users have invested a lot of time creating view schemes and view scheme groups that got destroyed more than once! Please, lets us know, where do you want to go tomorrow?
Now, you could argue that we do not have to deal with betas and we could use the standard MC9.0. Well, this would mean that we do not participate any longer in beta development!
I really hope that you can prove my arguments wrong, but I was simply fed up with things not working as they used to be every time I make some changes. I do not do this all the time, most of the time MC9 works simply as a player, but recently every time I wanted to make changes it was like dealing with another product - I do not like that! Please consider this in future developments! Thank you!