[Easytag-mailing] Feature requests

[Johnny Rosenberg <gurus knugum gmail com>]

I am a musician and I create 24 bit WAV files on external equipment,
Roland VS-2480, since WAV is the only file format it supports. Then I
import it to my laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 and convert it to FLAC, since
that's the only format that I like…

So I need to create all those tags, which is easily done with EasyTag.
Since this is about recordings I make myself as a musician it's very
common that I change things and make new WAV files with the same song
as earlier, so I figured it would be very convenient if I just could
copy all the tags of the old file right over to the new one at once.

Let's say that I could right click one file in EasyTag and that there
was a new option in the menu that pops up, ”Copy all tags”. Then it
would be convenient to right click another file, maybe even in a
different folder, and select ”Paste all tags” or something like that.
Like if EasyTag had its own internal clipboard or something.

Or can this be done already? How?
Any further thoughts?

The other day I had a similar ”problem” which took me quite some time
to get done: I had twenty songs in one folder that I made in 1998. A
few years later I improved those files and put them in another folder,
this time in FLAC format (instead of WAV format) with tags added.
The other day I opened the folder with the older versions and
converted them to FLAC, so I thought that it would be a good idea to
fill in all the tags there too. Most of them should be the same as the
modified files, but I couldn't find a really convenient way to copy
all the tags from the 20 files in one folder to the old 20 files in
the other folder.
What I finally did was opening two EasyTag windows and copy and paste
each tag for each song one by one. It took me quite some time, but it
was doable. If it were hundreds of files I would need a better way to
do it, I guess.

Another thing that would be nice, was if it was possible to fill tags
automatically from file names and folders plus free text and the other
way around. Let's say that I have a couple of FLAC files at
someplace/Johnny Rosenberg/Johnny Guitar/1/. Something like this would
then be very convenient in some cases: %a/%b{" part "}/%b/%t. Maybe
this syntax is really bad, but my goal in this case is to accomplish
the following, let's say we have a file named My Song.flac in that
folder:
Title: My Song
Artist: Johnny Rosenberg
Album: Johnny Guitar part 1

Maybe this is not a good example, but I hope my idea gets though in some way…

An alternative would be to have a new dialogue in which I can add free
text to a tag of my choice. Maybe a list box where I select which tag
I want to change, then a text field that will be automatically filled
with the current text, if it's the same for all the selected files.
Then I could easily add text to that text field. If I select the Title
tag, then it's unlikely that all the files selected contains the same
text. Then I could maybe enter text and select where to put it: At the
beginning or the end of the existing text. Maybe I have a lot of FLAC
files in the same folder which all have Rosenberg entered to their
Composer tag. Then I could select all the files, open the new
dialogue, select the Composer tag and input ”Johnny ” into the text
field and then select "At the beginning of the existing text" or
something like that. This would immediately change the Composer tag
from Rosenberg to Johnny Rosenberg for a lot of files at once.

Well, there were some ideas for you, at least. Thank you for reading,
and sorry for bad English.



Regards

Johnny Rosenberg