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[nila]

Here's how to recreate it.
I had an album with no track # in the filename and this lost me all my id3 tags

1. Select a full album (or bunch of songs).
2. right click on any of them and press r so it becomes flashing so you can fill in the info.
3. then click away on any part of the screen.

It'll fill the field selected of all of the songs selected with the data from whichever tag you are editing.

Aaahhh!

[JimH]

Nila,
Please report bugs in the bug thread ("MJ 8.0.xxx beta...").  

Thanks,

Jim

[Matt]

We'll fix that next build. (doh!)

-Matt

[nila]

Sorry Jim,
Thanks Matt

[Doof]

I'm not sure I understand. Isn't that what's supposed to happen?

Or am I just unable to reproduce the problem here.

If I follow those steps, I end up with every selected song having the same track number and all the other tags are left alone (mass tag editing). That's what I expect to happen.

What's happening to you?

[ZRocker]

Yea...that's the way it's supposed to work...called in-place editing for all selected tracks!

[nila]

Hmm, If it's a deliberate feature then it should DEFINITELY give a confirm prompt box before changing them all as people normally expect to click another part of a screen to choose not to do something and deselect the songs. Having this normal action result in all the songs being changed seems a bit wierd.

Also, maybe make it only work on certain fields - track number for instance I cant see many people wanting to change all their track numbers to the same one.

In place editing for individual songs is great. Having this type of batch processing should definitely require at the minimum a confirmation before anihilating all the songs.

Also, if it is a feature, how are you meant to choose not to apply it if clicking a blank part of the screen applies it instead of cancelling it?

[ZRocker]

Nila,

Press key to Cancel (standard Windows stuff).

[Matt]

Here's how it'll work in the next build:

If the new text is the same as the old text, it'll only save that value if you hit [ENTER].  If you click away or hit [ESCAPE], it won't change anything.  

If the text changes, then clicking away will save it, but [ESCAPE] won't.

Hopefully that makes sense...

-Matt

[Doof]

I can think of a good reason why I'd want to mass change track numbers.

If I don't have (or intend to ever have) an entire album, then I don't care what the track number is. I set them all to 0. Being able to do that to many files at once is nice.

[nila]

Matt - For when text isn't changed this sounds like a great solution.
For when it is though, alot of people like me aren't aware of this feature and it would catch them out.
Would it possibly be better to do: If they hit enter it updates it, if they press escape it cancels and if they click somewhere else on the screen then it does this basically:   if(confirm('This will change all the id3 tags.Are you sure you wish to do this?')) doUpdate();

That way, for people who know what they're doing they can just hit enter to update it all, for people who aren't sure of the feature then it will give them a choice of if they want to or not.

[Doof]

Just a note. If you guys do put a confirmation box in there, please for the love of all that is good in this world put a "Do not ask this again" checkbox.

[ZRocker]

Amen...Doof...Amen.