Quick recap of the points I tried to make that got lost.
The ones I can remember at least:
Analyse audio - doesn't update the properties page after a track is updated.
You guy should consider adding an option after tracks are imported asking the user if they want their audio analysed - this would make the user aware it's there as a feature straight away (great for beginners) and would also help them to set up their library to be as powerful as possible. Would also be good for power users just to remind them that the new music needs it done still.
'Save search' and 'load search'
Could these be brought to the main menu instead of being in a sub menu as these hardly seem like 'advanced' tools to me and I could imagine beginners using these as well as more power users and the power users would want to be able to access them quickly.
The Send to menu - Love the ability to configure external tools and the way it adds these to the list at the top - could we also be able to configure the send to menu itself so that we can choose items we want to appear on the top of it.
Send To/Playlist - this is totally useless to me although would be a great tool. The fact it's all thrown into one big list makes it shoot off my page and takes ages to navigate. (See Screenshot which just goes from A-E and fills my screen).
http://www.phaze-clothing.com/temp/screenshot1.jpgIt needs to follow the same cascading setup as I have created in the Main window so all these would appear only in their sub folder.
Playlist pane - When I heard about this I thought it was going to allow us to easily view what's in each playlist while still in other windows in the main screen and would allow us to easily add or move files around between playlists. It doesn't seem to do either of these though and I cant work out what it does in fact do.
LOVE the new feature of 'View Scheme Groups'
Also LOVE: Grouping
TRUELY LOVE: wizard to create Search criteria - this really opens it up to everyone and just makes it soo much more powerful, easy to use and self explanatory.
The addition of 'Help' to this menu is great too to explain what it does. The 'help' might be even better served by adding a little ? after the search text box so that users could instantly see it if they were wondering what it is without having to feel intimidated by pressing a button. I know some of beginner friends to computers hate pressing buttons they dont know of in case it 'kills their computer' type thing (paranoya) - a ? they would click though as it says 'help' all over it.
Plug in's could be brought so much more to the surface and emphasized to users by giving them a menu next to tools where all plug-ins automatically get added and listed making it very easy to jump to them. Their own toolbar as suggested several times in the past where they can install themselves would also be greatly welcomed.
There's now a big lagg between me typing in search criteria and it actually showing the results. In v8 it was instant and updated as I typed.
Could 'Find and Replace' be extended to include: 'Remove X characters from position Y from Start/End.
This could allow us to trim parts that appear in all the files selected.
DSP studio - would LOVE this to be dockable like properties.
Toggle List Style - could this be implemented like: View Filter so I can actually see what the options are rather than just having to click blindly.
Changing the list style is erasing my search criteria - HUGELY not welcomed.
None of my cover art is displayed unless it's specifically set. Couldn't a feature like AV2's to find the covers be added?
All my covers are in the album dir's and it seems pointless for me to have to manually spend days adding the covers for 500 albums when the program could do it for me in a minute.
Got a: 'saving tag changes' message when leaving a view - this is SCARY when I didn't change anything. Makes me want to know what on earth MJ is doing to my songs. PLEASE give us an option to have MJ ONLY update tags when we specifically click apply - Some of us dont trust computers and I'm one of them. Dont want anything changed unless I SPECIFICALLY tell MJ to do it. just force killed MJ as it was 'updating tag info' for quite a while and I hadn't asked it to. Not sure what it was doing and am scared!!
k - that's scaring me too much. Uninstalling v9 right now. Just opened MJ again after force crashing it to find it 'updating tag info' automatically on restarting and my hard drive screaming. Not sure what it's doing but hope it's not messing up years of tagging and organising of my music. Going back to 8 - My baby
PLEASE, Pretty please, give a 'paranoid' option in MJ where tags are only updated upon specifically choosing to: Apply Tag Changes
I dont want to loose weeks worth of work because I accidentally change something in properties windowwhich is then applied automatically.