-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: Migrating user settings started by bugmenot
Posted by: bugmenot on Aug. 18 2007,14:21
My one big annoyance with Mp3tag studio must be when the preferences has evolved through time, with better, bigger and more refined settings to handle even the most difficult task. Especially the collection of tagging patterns that builds up through testing and failing in the shell extension menu is valuable, as I do most of my tag work through the menu in explorer. During last reinstall i lost all these preferences because I saved the working directory in the belief that they were all there. The horrors!
Ok, here's the point. These settings are stored in the registry. This makes is not a very inviting thing when you want to save your preferences and tag along with the next reinstallation of windows. Wouldn't it be possible to store these settings in a .ini-file in the local directory? Or even better, having a choice of letting mp3 tag studio export them to a single file?
This would be a nice icing on an already delightful cake.
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Aug. 21 2007,13:04
The reason that they are in the registry is access time from the shell extension. It has a clear impact on all right-click operations in Explorer if a shell extension has a slow loading time, and since the registry is faster than file storage in this case, that's how I did it. But sure, and import/export feature would be an option, I'll keep it for possible future implementation.
Until then, see this:
< http://www.magnusbrading.com/cgi-bin....1;t=546 >
Posted by: bugmenot on Aug. 25 2007,03:34
Thank you.
Of course, the speed aspect is both valid and important. Then I'm suddenly all in favor of registry. Still, both the lazy and the technophobics would appreciate an export settings-function.
Posted by: j_m_b on Dec. 03 2007,08:38
i have write a 4NT script for this to save my settings each night
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