deegee
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Posted: Oct. 15 2003,12:21 |
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Hi
I know you've had suggestions like this before - here's another take...
Provide an alternate file selection browser in the form of a 'spreadsheet'. Allow columns to be:
* selected from available MP3 fields + filename + dir
* displayed (doh! )
* sorted
* edited (both individually and en masse)
The sheet should be populated from a starting directory, usually recursively.
Probably most useful for "Browse/Edit tags & flags" but using this as a file selection mechanism would be great for doing things to files around the collection.
It also allows you to see *all* your MP3 fields at once - so if I sort by Artist then misspellings are obvious.
To be really cool you'd scan the MP3s and store the database somewhere so restarting TS would be quick (it'd work for me 'cos I don't use anything else to change tags  )
Some extra words:
This 'spreadsheet' control would appear where the "browse tree / custom file list" goes now and would replace them if it was chosen (kinda like the way the custom file list appears when you tick it's tick-box.)
By en masse editing I mean select multiple rows (MP3s) type into 1 field (eg Artist) and all MP3s are changed. The selection is retained.
Another great 'en masse' feature would be "create custom (play?) list from current selection".
If you did keep a persistent database then you could do some interesting stuff in the future:
* key on the filename - confirmed before changing with an MD5 hash of the first 512k of music data maybe (which could also be used to 'match' tracks in case the file was edited outside TS)
* 'extra' field information to be stored - user configurable? (eg CDDB Id, 'like it/hate it flag' etc)
* import and extend playlists
As a first cut you don't need to make it editable. It'd work great with Mass set tags/flags, Mass clean up tags (which BTW should have 'casefix' as an option), and Browse/Edit tags/flags...
Hey, you know you want to - just do it !!!
David
PS MP3TS is really cool and I'm a lazy sod so I haven't registered yet - I will do so today
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