Reply 100! In celebration.... (Many recent changes have made this much shorter than it was, but here we go.....)
Darichman's
super-duper wish list for MC13
Major ChangesRelational DatabaseDiscussed at length elsewhere. Functional artist and album database at least, with inheritance of information from what’s already in the database. Movie/Television database would also be nice. Even nicer, allow us to create our own groups based on fields – a true information database, not just a file database could offer something like AMG (Allmusic, Allmovies, Allgames), with user generated content. Pretty please?
Visualising Information during playbackArtist Info and Album Info views – would tie in nicely with database changes mentioned above. Need to make better use of extended metadata like lyrics. A flashy snazzy interactive menu to display this stuff while a file is playing would be cool. Track Info templates are a bit limited, afterall.
Tagging of non-taggable filesFor files which don’t support embedded tags/metadata, have MC create “.tag” files in the folder to store this information for retrieval on other computers or as a backup of the information. Can’t count how many times I’ve lost info because it’s stored in the database only
Portable databaseLooks like something might be happening here! Would be great to see MC backups containing library info, settings, view schemes and plugins if possible... a quick glance at any of benn600’s posts will show that there is avid support for this
Photo HandlingMC12 has been fantastic for photos. Well done! Would love to see some more big changes here.
See:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=43888.msg301182#msg301182Feature RequestsThe TreeAllow customisation of tree root items (order/custom icons)
Allow tree root items in theatre view (PLEASE!)
Allow us to get rid of "Audio,Video,Images" for those of us who find these categories unuseful
Expression EditorExpressions confuse me. I have found them incredibly useful when I’ve managed to find the time to sit down and plot one out from scratch, but an “Expression Wizard” would really help out with those nested “if(...)” functions. You could call it “Marko”
New ExpressionsI’ve got “count” and “combine” (great!). I want to be able to do calculations etc across multiple tracks. This might only be possible if MC went to a relational database
In addition, I would really like a “Find & Replace” expression for use in view scheme panes. This would allow me to parse the [Artist] field based on “ & “ and “, “ etc. Many other uses as well.
Consolidate Move/Copy/Rename files
...and apply similar system to ripping and conversionBugs / Outstanding IssuesClean file properties appends XXXX-01-01 00:00 to year field
(http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=44465.msg304295#msg304295)Animated GIF filesMC, the one that plays it all, probably one of the most powerful media apps on the net, cannot play animated GIFs. Yes I know it’s hard to believe that MC cannot handle that which even windows picture viewer can do. Shame, J River, shame