Anyone else see a clear pattern to requests? Requests that are common will get priority.
I’ve just spent the last 2 hours going through this thread to see what kind of patterns I could find, so here are the results, in my interpretation:
The main areas seemed to be:
Importing
Tagging
Library Viewing
Image Manipulation
Playback
Further Use
So, pretty much everything that MC does! Well, here are what I took to be the main suggestions in these areas:
IMPORTING:
Determine the orientation of images (landscape/portrait) – v. popular
EXIF-
import EXIF to calculated fields – v. popular
auto-name from EXIF
duplicate files on ‘Send to External Application’ and save EXIF for duplicated original
Import to folder by date – popular
Designated auto-import folder
Preview images on camera – v. popular
TAGGING:
Tag images on camera – v. popular
Display only tags specific to media, eg when using dropdown ‘Genre’ field, show only genres used for images – popular
Related: Separate/Editable presets for using ‘Rename File from Properties’ with images – v. popular
Tagging images while playing – v. popular
LIBRARY VIEWING:
View large images – v. popular
View large images windowed – popular
Calendar browser view
Separate thumbnail sizes for images – v. popular
Generate all thumbnail sizes for data CDs
Sorting tabs for thumbnail view
Thumbnail column for detail view
IMAGE MANIPULATION:
Rotate and Resize – v. popular (I know these functions exist already, but they got mentioned a lot, and it seems as though the functionality of these should be expanded to include more options for saving copies)
Image correction – a couple of mentions, but at least one request to omit it…
Save correction to tags for viewing without changing the original file
Printing-
custom printing templates - popular
collate option
PLAYBACK:
Skip through images used in 3d visualisations
Expanded/Improved autopan and zoom – v. popular
Image ‘hotspots’ for zoom
Configurable display of tag info in playback, ie custom font sizes and background colours
Display ‘captions’ in Playing Now (not sure what captions are, but it’s mentioned quite a bit)
Easily view image properties in Playing Now
Separate playback controls for audio and images in the playback window, ie don’t pause music when image playback paused
Refined timer control in playback
Action Window image to follow Playing Now
FURTHER USE:
Create slideshows, wallpaper changers and screensavers - popular
Burn slideshows, wallpaper changers and screensavers to CD/DVD – popular
Create/burn slideshows, wallpaper changers and screensavers with music tracks
Send combo audio/visual playlists to screensaver-maker
Burn images to CD/DVD while leaving screen-res catalog in library
Create menus for CD slideshows
Templates for web-uploads
Convert view-schemes to HTML
It has to be said that this is not a scientifically perfect analysis of the suggestions, but I thought it might help…
Maybe we could set these up as polls, so people can return to the topic and vote for certain features; I think that could be messy, but maybe the J River crew could do it for us, thereby limiting the options to features they are actually able/prepared to implement…
Rock on, J River!!
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