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[hoyt]

Is there a way to do this? 

I end up doing a lot of manual curation for tagging of live music.  I've setup a smart list to find new files that I haven't reviewed and then I work through them.  A lot of times I can batch tag for things like artist, album, etc.  But when it comes to the song title, I often have a text file open in one half of my screen and MC in the other.  I want to easily be able to load up 20 tracks in a smart list and enter the Name field in the tagging pane, type the name, hit enter (ctrl+enter, alt+enter, shift+enter, down+enter, etc) to move to the next file and then type that name, repeating this process.  I've tried a bunch of different key combinations, but can't seem to find one that does what I want.  Is this possible to do without using the mouse?

Thanks!

[swiv3d]

Just use the up down left right arrow keys on the keyboard?

[hoyt]

Just use the up down left right arrow keys on the keyboard?

That works if I edit in-line, but I tend to use the tag pane - I should have mentioned that in the post.  One of the main reasons is that to get into the edit-in-line mode, you need to do two single clicks (1 to select, 1 to enter the field).  I often fail at that and end up double clicking, then it starts to play the track.

[DJLegba]

That works if I edit in-line, but I tend to use the tag pane - I should have mentioned that in the post.  One of the main reasons is that to get into the edit-in-line mode, you need to do two single clicks (1 to select, 1 to enter the field).  I often fail at that and end up double clicking, then it starts to play the track.

Single-click to select the track then F2 gets you into in-line edit mode

[hoyt]

Single-click to select the track then F2 gets you into in-line edit mode

That helps.  I'll have to get used to using the in-line mode I guess

Thanks!

[JimH]

That works if I edit in-line, but I tend to use the tag pane - I should have mentioned that in the post.  One of the main reasons is that to get into the edit-in-line mode, you need to do two single clicks (1 to select, 1 to enter the field).  I often fail at that and end up double clicking, then it starts to play the track.

That's a slow double click.

[hoyt]

That's a slow double click.

I guess I could adjust that.  Typically when I do this, I RDP into my Windows NUC from my Mac. (I have no idea why I do that instead of using MC on my Mac, old behavior I guess).  It's one of the few times I use Windows these days.  Most of my time at work is spent between a Linux CLI and OS X.  I do seem to recall that there is a setting somewhere in Windows to change that, but I wonder if the RDP aspect exacerbates my slow clicking.

[hoyt]

(I have no idea why I do that instead of using MC on my Mac, old behavior I guess).

I remembered why I use MC on Windows or this task.  I often right click a file and pick Locate (external) so that I can find the accompanying .txt file.  That option doesn't work on Mac, I guess because I have all Windows file paths.