12.0.87 (10/5/06)
2. Changed: Tag Action Window doesn't show "Track #" on the first line any longer.
3. Changed: Tag window no longer uses new line during editing a field.
4. Fixed: Using the Tag window with panes visible could be overly slow.
5. NEW: Tag window uses new (more powerful) visible field selection mechanism.
6. Fixed: Tag window would use inconsistent colors for the text in the header area.
7. Changed: Image in Tag window now has an instructional tooltip.
8. Changed: Reduced the font size of the labels in the Tag window.
1. Changed: Got rid of the mode skipping while stopped when pressing F11.
2. Changed: Tag Action Window doesn't show "Track #" on the first line any longer.
5. NEW: Tag window uses new (more powerful) visible field selection mechanism.
12. Fixed: 3D Pong did not render properly.
13. Fixed: 3D Pong had too much drag on the ball, causing dead balls, after extended play.
This is a good change, but I'm still hoping for the ability to change the order of tags in the display (rather than just being stuck with alphabetical.) This would allow us to put the "most used" tags toward the top of the list where they are easier to spot.
It would be even EASIER to quickly select tags for editing if there were grid lines.
5. NEW: Tag window uses new (more powerful) visible field selection mechanism.I now like the tagging in 12.0.87 better than MC11.
6. Fixed: Tag window would use inconsistent colors for the text in the header area.
7. Changed: Image in Tag window now has an instructional tooltip.
8. Changed: Reduced the font size of the labels in the Tag window.
If anyone can post a nice looking mock-up of gridlines in the Tag window with the Noire skin, we'll consider implementing it.
From our experimentation, grid-lines looked out of place and cluttered.
| (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow.gif) Number 1 | (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow1.gif) Number 2 |
| (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow2.gif) Number 3 | (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow4.gif) Number 4 |
| (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow5.gif) Number 5 | (http://www.copesonline.com/tagwindow6.gif) Number 6 |
dcwebman,
Thanks for your efforts with this. I've asked Matt for gridlines as in #1 above.
Jim
Jim,
You're welcome. You do realize though that number 1 is basically MC 11 with the top of MC 12 on it. ;)
I do like the narrower space lines like in 6 though so there's no so much scrolling as number 1 would be.
You must be young... My 47 year old eyes like the little extra space to help keep things apart. Now when I was 40 (before I needed reading glasses) I may have agreed with you.
You must be young... My 47 year old eyes like the little extra space to help keep things apart. Now when I was 40 (before I needed reading glasses) I may have agreed with you.
Nope, one year younger than you. I just have a 14" widescreen laptop and the less vertical scrolling I have to do, the better!
if you select 2 files, and click on album it shows 2. to select from. Name should work the same way. it does NOT
I don't think the different menu options are working correctly. I had quite a few fields displayed and then selected "Show Default Tags". I expected the minimum number of tags to then be displayed. The fields displayed were a lot more than that. I "think" the default tags are Album, Artist, Date, Genre, Name, Track #.
Clear the "Also Show" list.
We think we're done with tagging now. Please let us know what you think.
Clicking on Name at top of list edits the Name field if listed below but depending on how many tags are shown, the user may not see that without scrolling down and may think it just disappeared. (Same with Date field). If the Name (or Date) field isn't displayed below the editing takes place at the same location. It would be better to do the same editing up top if the upper 2 fields are clicked even if the fields are displayed below.
Before you totally finish with it, I like someone's previous suggestion of swapping the the placing of the ratings, and the file summary info. The ratings would fit nice and snugly next to the thumbnail, and the file summary info would have some more breathing space, and less wrapping if it were centered below the thumbnail.
I have to say that I dont like the gridlines much. Looks like an exel sheet again. But it bothers me less than not having them bothered everyone else so I'll live with it.
On the subject of ratings, I'd still like to be able to completely remove them from the TW since I simply never use them. It's always struck me as really odd that this is one of the few fields that is "always on." I just don't have any desire to "rate" the songs in my library.
We're done.
Clicking on Name at top of list edits the Name field if listed below but depending on how many tags are shown, the user may not see that without scrolling down and may think it just disappeared. (Same with Date field). If the Name (or Date) field isn't displayed below the editing takes place at the same location. It would be better to do the same editing up top if the upper 2 fields are clicked even if the fields are displayed below.
We're done.
1. cells still too close together which requires greater mouse accuracy.
2. colon-delimited fields should have the first choice be typing rather than mousing. Mouse use and use of the select list should be optional, not required. I can tab into a colon-delimited field, but how does one tab out of it and give focus to the next field?
Name is not an auto-complete drop list by design. The thinking is that names are normally unique and that since there are so many, it'd be an unmanageable list.
This is one of the points of using "List" type fields instead of one of the other types -- i.e. to have it give you a choice of checkboxes RATHER THAN a dropdown list. If you want the behavior you're looking for, you can change the field to one of the other field types. While this would technically not limit the field to only certain entries, it WOULD allow you to select from a dropdown list, and typing would auto-complete with the existing entries.
I wanted to thank you Larry for your enthusiastic advocacy for change in this area. I doubt that we'd all be as satisfied as we are without your efforts (and even if you aren't completely happy now, you must admit it is much better than it was).
Thanks.
:)
The old "File Type Info" is integrated with the Format field. Click the field to expand it.
Similarly you can expand the small cover image in the top left corner of the AW Tag Info by clicking it. This opens a bigger image display that has a right-click menu for image options.