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Alex B:

--- Quote from: Matt on August 09, 2006, 02:27:18 pm ---Actually you can if you click a little to the right of the stars (just like in the file list). This isn't very clear, but I'm not sure what would make it more clear.
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Thanks.

How about usind the SHELL32.DLL icon #240 (or similar) as a symbol?

http://www.glennslayden.com/shell32_icons.htm

Alex B:
I cannot get previously unimported cue files imported or even the tracks correctly displayd in Playing Now. I tried all available import methods.

Also, mpl files that contain cue tracks with playback ranges don't import the tracks correctly.

The old cue tracks in a restored MC11.1 library are fine.

Doof:
The problem with this is that I might not always want the same tags displayed when I'm just browsing, but then when I want to do some tagging, I need to navigate that menu multiple times to add the various fields I want to edit. It's a huge step backwards from 11, and even earlier builds of 12. For instance, I may not care to see what the Lyrics tag contains while browsing my library, but I still want to easily access this field to edit it. This holds true for all sorts of fields.

I realize everybody has their own ideas of what's best, but I really can't believe too many people will like it this way when compared to 11.1.

This is how I would like to see it...


Show Filled Tags      > Shows all Non-Read Only Tags with data in them
Show Empty Tags      > Shows all Non-Read Only Tags without data in them
Show Read Only Tags   > Shows all Read Only Tags
Show Media Specific Tags   > Shows Tags specific to the currently selected file's media type
Show Tags In Current View   > Shows Tags that are displayed in the current view even if they don't fit in with any of the above choices
Show Tag Categories   > Splits the Tag AW into the categories defined in the Tag's properties
Show Format Summary   > Displays the information that this always used to
Show/Hide Specific Tags   > Displays the full list of tags and allows for tag-level override of the above settings
Select All
Deselect All

I think something like this would give us the best of both worlds. We can easily and quickly display or hide entire groups of fields, and still fine tune it to our liking. It brings back Categories for those who liked and depended on them as well as gives us back the ability to view only the current view's tags (which was a feature I personally used all the time). Basically it would give us everything we used to have along with all the nice things we get with the current system.

When displaying the various tags, MC would go through and display the selected groups, show or hide any specific fields the user has specified, divide them up into their categories if necessary, and then display it in the nice pleasing way that 12 does currently.
 
And then in an ideal world, you could let us define our own categories, and define what media types custom fields belong to.

At that point, I think MC12 would have the tag editor that it so richly deserves. Because honestly, as it stands right now in .51, it feels like it's been crippled.

[sorry for the mangle, I hit edit instead of reply -- Matt]

Matt:

--- Quote ---The problem with this is that I might not always want the same tags displayed when I'm just browsing, but then when I want to do some tagging, I need to navigate that menu multiple times to add the various fields I want to edit.
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One important point is that the menu should stay open while you tick and untick fields.  So it should be quite fast to make changes.

NoCodeUK:
Matt,

The iPod problem was with an already nearly full iPod trying to add new stuff.  After ejecting the db was trashed and I got the constant reboot error like gamer.  After eformatting the iPod using the updater and copying tracks over all was fine so am guessing it was simply due to the db changes mentioned.  If anyone is going to test iPod they need to know they will need to reinitialize the ipod first.

Adam

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