-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: A "QuickTag" shell extension? started by EddyGeez
Posted by: EddyGeez on Aug. 14 2002,14:51
I would love to be able to right-click on an MP3 file, and choose "Quick Tag" from the Mp3/Tag Studio menu. This would nearly instantaneously (instead of waiting for Mp3/TS to start, which takes a significant amount of time, even on a fast machine) open a dialog box similar to the "Browse/Edit tags & flags" tab to allow you to set the ID3 tags quickly and easily, using the current Mp3/TS preferences, etc. Right now, the fastest way to tag an individual file that doesn't have a lot of repetition is to use WinAmp; it starts up much faster than Mp3/TS.
Also, while I'm writing... if Mp3/TS is currently open, and you right click on a folder and say "Edit this directory in Mp3/TS", it launches another copy of Mp3/TS (with the inherent delays associated with such). I'd like to see an user-configurable prefernce option to "Re-use an existing Mp3/TS window" that simply "moves" the existing copy of Mp3/TS to that directory to avoid the long startup delays.
As you may be able to tell, the startup delay of Mp3/TS is an issue for me, and is the only thing preventing me from registering at this point! Programs like Word, UltraEdit, WinAmp start seemingly instantaneously; I only wish Mp3/TS started as fast!
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Aug. 14 2002,20:40
It would be quite hard to reduce the startup time drastically without major rewrites, but the "re-use open instance" option is already planned fot a future version.
I will see what I can do about a smaller "quick edit window" too, but I can't promise anything.
Thanks.
Posted by: Skirge01 on Aug. 15 2002,02:01
EddyGeez,
This is the second post I'm writing in 5 minutes and referencing this program.
Check out < http://odin.mutschler.de/mp3ext/MP3ext.html > as it does exactly what you're asking. It's a property sheet for MP3's and has little boxes to click next to each field you want to stay the same. It takes some getting used to, since it has minimal documentation, but it's a great little shell extension!
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