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[decker]

Hello,

after importing flac files with a long artist field the field values are not fully displayed. That is they are shortend to a value ending with "...". (See attachment)


There would be more space in the column so there is no need to shorten the value.
And: If the value of artist is changed (e.g. a blanc added and remove) and saved there is no abbreviation before the column end anymore. That is probably how it should be.

Why this is of importance for me: I want to edit meta data of all flac files at ounce in case the have the same artists. But this is difficult because I only see a small part.

May be there is time to change this.

Thanks and best regards

Thomas

[Matt]

If you F2 to edit the value, what's the full text of the first values in your screenshot?

[decker]

The full text of the artist field is:
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Le Concert d'Astrée, Orchestra Emmanuelle Haim, Conductor, MainArtist Louis de Cahusac, Poet

[Matt]

The full text of the artist field is:
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer Le Concert d'Astrée, Orchestra Emmanuelle Haim, Conductor, MainArtist Louis de Cahusac, Poet

For me that value goes right up to where we switch to "..." in all cases.  I made the artist column lots of widths.

So all that empty space is a riddle to me.

I almost wonder if there's a non-printable character in the string?  You could try copying and pasting from here to remove anything like that.  Still shorter than it needs to be?

Thanks.

[decker]

I just checked: The original field value from QOBUZ includes unprintable characters CR+LF as a delimiter between artists.
Copying the value in the flac file to Notepad++ I got this:

So the problem is caused by QOBUZ. But may be it's an idea to look for CR+LF or CR delimters or give the user a choice.

Thanks for your help.
Thomas

[Matt]

I added something that could help to "Clean File Properties" recently.  It now has a "Remove newlines" option.  You could run that on your files.