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Hi!

This issue still seems to be present and happening. Just had to manually scrobble couple dozen tracks, as Last.fm configuration was just wiped off.

Is this something that is already fixed in 32? If yes, I would consider upgrading to the latest version.

Best regards

That sounds tricky to me because each preset contains all the settings for everything.  So there's no way to merge since each preset overwrites everything.

The behavior is a result of mapping Genre field to IPTC/XMP IntellectualGenre property.

1. Image genres can definitely be different from other media genre properties, personal preferences does not matter.
2. You don't have to use them, they are just presented as options because these "IntellectualGenre" properties are strictly mapped to certain codes, so the only way to make them conform to the standards is to present them as choices instead of letting users type them.

To manually install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 there's two other dependencies it has you need to install with it. You have to manually install these three from the mantic-updates repo in order to get MC32 to install...

libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37, libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18_2 and libicu72

Probably better to wait for a MC32 update to hopefully address this.

Are these not part of the standard repo?
Even if one installed MC from the download link and not the repo you should still be able to do a
sudo apt -f install

Currently, I'm running MC on...
I use this install on my laptop mostly for queries to the MC database residing on the MC server (a Windows desktop).

I am using this install of MC on Linux to get a feel of how it works because I may be replacing the Windows PC in my entertainment center with a Linux PC due to the ridiculously onerous Windows 11 hardware requirements.

One question I do have...

I've no qualms abut running plain ole Debian on that entertainment center PC.  But Debian supports many window managers.  Is one preferred over the other?  My requirements are that that PC runs MC well.  No other needs for that PC.

Is there a recommended or preferred windows manager under Debian?

I develop on XFCE. IMHO it's the least complicated but still competent.

You should be able to use Handheld Sync to accomplish that.

https://wiki.jriver.com/index.php/Handheld_Sync_Options

Read the section called "Files, Paths, ..."

Marko said this about column alignment:

Please allow us to set a program default for list column alignment, or let it be set in field manager?

I get that people who code or spend days at a time in excel like their numbers right aligned, but my brain hates it. I initially think the column is empty, then realise it's right aligned, so set the alignment to left... for every affected column. It really irks me

Today when a column isn't specified, it simply uses the default with this logic:
return (m_nDataType == DT_NUMBER || m_nDataType == DT_NUMBER_INTEGER) ? JRT_RIGHT : JRT_LEFT;

One simple change is that we could make right-align of numeric fields an advanced option.

We could expand to allow setting alignment on a field-by-field basis, but that seems a little too dense to me.

Thanks for any thoughts.

Some people have reported success with Askell & Kern players, some not.

https://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=125683.0

It's a good idea to ask A&K.

You're not going to get MC32 onto the DAP itself, that's not possible. Ripping CDs to FLAC is fine, a lot of people do this (including myself), just make sure as RobMac mentioned you have the space to store it. Also there's a chance the A&K may not work with MC32 at all, I've heard reports over the years of A&K devices not working with/not being detected by MC, and it being on a Mac too, there's a chance it may not work or detect it.

I'm just saying if it doesn't work and/or if it isn't even detected, don't be surprised.

I think you could use Rename, Move & Copy, under Library Tools, to move them according to Genre.  But why bother?  MC will separate them, no matter where they are physically located.

Before making a start on ripping CDs back in 2013, I made a detailed study of my options for file and folder naming. I was well aware that metadata was the key that enabled easy browsing of my (95% classical) collection using software such as JRiver Media Center on my PC and MinimServer on my NAS, but I still wanted wanted the physical folder structure to make sense - especially as I was planning to store MP3 copies of my music files on my Android phone (using the same folder structure), for use when I was away from home and without a reliable connection to my NAS.

At that time, I couldn't find any Android music player app that understood the special needs of classical music (focused on Composer and Work, rather than Artist and Album). Even today, I don't think there are any Android music players that meet my needs for classical metadata-based browsing. I therefore wanted the physical location of the music files on my phone to be easily browseable.

To achieve this, I decided to store most of my classical rips in a folder hierarchy of Composer, Album, and Work, with most of my non-classical rips being stored in a simpler hierarchy of Artist and Album. Compilation albums are handled in a slightly different manner. It didn't take too much effort to configure dBpoweramp CD Ripper to do all this automatically (helped by the fact that it has a Compilation checkbox).

Sadly, it doesn't look like MC can do the same thing. Manually moving the files after an MC rip using Rename, Move & Copy would be a tedious process that would more than negate the benefits of avoiding the manual import of a dBpoweramp rip.