A few questions after a few hours

[Scottes7]

I have to say that I like this program a lot. Enough to buy the Pro version after 3 hours of use.

Anyway, after another 5 hours, I have a few questions and a couple comments.

1. I’d like to see more buttons in the toolbar - Open/Add Folder, Open/Add Files, etc. And also Close All Files. Am I

2. Right-Click a field and chose Set Value - It would be nice if the pop-up were populated with current value of field, if possible. If several songs are selected, and If the field contents differ, then this wouldn’t be possible.

3. All my tracks end up with Disc Numbers that have leading zeroes. I do have the option to fix this enabled, but it still happens. Is there an AutoCorrect for this field?

4. How do I keep original data. How do I tell Jaikoz not to change a field, but keep original value(s)? Like “Revert To Saved” but only for that field? OK, I found a weird way… Highlight the field, right-click and chose Delete, then hit Control-Z. But this method is a bit wonky.

5. How can I close files, but only ones selected? If I am working on a number of albums, and the corrected metadata for one of those albums is all wrong in my opinion, how can I close the files for just that album? Or revert back to original data for that album? Like “Revert To Saved” but only for selected songs?

[paultaylor]

1. I’d like to see more buttons in the toolbar - Open/Add Folder, Open/Add Files, etc. And also Close All Files. Am I

Yes you are right, the problem from my pov has always been designing/getting icons. But do you have View/Show Advanced Toolbar enabled that gives you a few icons.

2. Right-Click a field and chose Set Value - It would be nice if the pop-up were populated with current value of field, if possible. If several songs are selected, and If the field contents differ, then this wouldn’t be possible.

I’m not sure I like that idea, as in many cases you would end up having to delete the existing value before entering the value you want, and as you say you would get different behaviour if you had selected multiple values with different existing values.

3. All my tracks end up with Disc Numbers that have leading zeroes. I do have the option to fix this enabled, but it still happens. Is there an AutoCorrect for this field?

You are saying you don’t want leading zeroes, and you have Save:General:Pad Number with Zeroes disabled,
What type of files are you seeing this for (mp3s, flac ectera) ?

4. How do I keep original data. How do I tell Jaikoz not to change a field, but keep original value(s)? Like “Revert To Saved” but only for that field? OK, I found a weird way… Highlight the field, right-click and chose Delete, then hit Control-Z. But this method is a bit wonky.

If you dont want Musicbrainz to change a value set the appropriate option in Preferences:Musicbrainz:Auto Format for that field. For Discogs set in Preferences:Remote Correct:Discogs.

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5. How can I close files, but only ones selected? If I am working on a number of albums, and the corrected metadata for one of those albums is all wrong in my opinion, how can I close the files for just that album? Or revert back to original data for that album? Like “Revert To Saved” but only for selected songs?[/quote]
Just select the songs in the row header, or fields of the song in the main edit table, right click and from the popup select Save:Close Files

[Scottes7]

Yes you are right, the problem from my pov has always been designing/getting icons.

Here is one collection of open source icons. There are others. http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/

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2. Right-Click a field and chose Set Value - It would be nice if the pop-up were populated with current value of field, if possible. If several songs are selected, and If the field contents differ, then this wouldn’t be possible.
[/quote]I’m not sure I like that idea, as in many cases you would end up having to delete the existing value before entering the value you want, and as you say you would get different behaviour if you had selected multiple values with different existing values.[/quote]
I have seen many programs populate the text box with the text already selected/highlighted. This allows the user to start typing letters, which overwrites the selected text, or hit an arrow/home/end key, which de-selects the text and lets them edit it. Clicking in the selected text with the mouse also de-selects the text and allows editing. By populating with pre-selected text, deleting/over-writing the existing text is one key stroke which would have to be typed anyway. But keeping the existing text is one different keystroke or mouse-click.

[quote]You are saying you don’t want leading zeroes, and you have Save:General:Pad Number with Zeroes disabled,
What type of files are you seeing this for (mp3s, flac ectera) ?[/quote]Yes, that is what I’m saying. These are always FLAC.

[quote]4. How do I keep original data.[/quote]If you dont want Musicbrainz to change a value set the appropriate option in Preferences:Musicbrainz:Auto Format for that field. For Discogs set in Preferences:Remote Correct:Discogs.

I mean for just occasional occurrences - one field in one particular album.

[quote]5. How can I close files, but only ones selected?[/quote]Just select the songs in the row header, or fields of the song in the main edit table, right click and from the popup select Save:Close Files

Cool, thanks.

[paultaylor]

[quote]Here is one collection of open source icons. There are others. http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/
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Trouble is they are not that good, and they dont provide icons suitable for many of the functions use din Jaikoz. But it is a longstanding problem that I need to provide a solution for.

[quote]I have seen many programs populate the text box with the text already selected/highlighted. This allows the user to start typing letters, which overwrites the selected text, or hit an arrow/home/end key, which de-selects the text and lets them edit it. Clicking in the selected text with the mouse also de-selects the text and allows editing. By populating with pre-selected text, deleting/over-writing the existing text is one key stroke which would have to be typed anyway. But keeping the existing text is one different keystroke or mouse-click.
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I can see your point, this kind of thing is quite difficult to do well in Java because of the ways different oses interact withe user but I’ll consider it.

[quote]Yes, that is what I’m saying. These are always FLAC.
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Yeah, I think there is a bug here.

[quote]I mean for just occasional occurrences - one field in one particular album.
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I still dont understand , you want to set this after you’ve changed the field by running Autocorrect or before you change the field but there is the Edit/Undo option for undoing changes made to selected fields.

[Scottes7]

I still dont understand , you want to set this after you’ve changed the field by running Autocorrect or before you change the field but there is the Edit/Undo option for undoing changes made to selected fields.

OK, chalk this up to a lack of RTFM on my part. Ctrl-Z or Undo does what I wanted, and reverts back to the original data. I think I was stuck on Picard’s “Use Original Data” to do the same thing.