On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Joey Dodson <ninjawai...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm not on the dev list, as I currently don't have much programming > experience. However, I thought I'd compliment you guys on the project > and give a couple suggestions. If you don't want/need suggestions, > then please ignore this email. > > 1. Editing song information > This is probably the single most troublesome aspect of using Rythmbox. > It currently seems impossible to edit meta info for a song (am I > wrong?). Rythmbox could really use some ways to alter this > information. Ideally doing this should be saved in the file (though > that could be an option in preferences). This should be doable within > the music library. I hate to say this, but windows media player is a > good example of easy and convenient library management. If you select > a song and then click a field in the song it is possible to edit the > info for that song. Another nice feature of wmp is that using tab and > up/down arrows, you can navigate through the adjacent fields. For > example, I added some files from an album to my library, but the > artist information isn't there. I can then type the artist info into > track one, copy it, then hit down arrow then paste repeatedly to fill > in the whole album's artist info in a few seconds. Anyways, I really > think there are good arguments for implementing this feature sooner > rather than later. I'm sure with a bit of creativity it would be > entirely possible to outdo wmp's functionality here. :)
To edit a single song in RB, I right click on it and pick edit properties from the context menu (something like that - I'm in front of RB right now). To edit multiple songs (e.g. to rename an album), select the songs, then again use the right click edit properties menu. Peter _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
