Feature requests

["Steven P. Ulrick" <meow8282 gmail com>]

Hello, David
One of the big things that Puddletag does that I REALLY like is it lets 
you easily choose which columns you want to display.  It even lets you 
configure your own columns:
If you right click on a heading in any of the columns, a little 
button(?) pops up that says "Select Columns"  When you click on that, 
this is what you see:
http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/PuddletagScreenshot-001
This is especially handy if your files have a lot of tag fields, but the 
size of your monitor does not allow you to conveniently keep all of them 
in view.

Also, Puddletag displays Bitrates in a column.  Easytag can sort by 
bitrate, but you have to click through the files to see what the 
bitrates actually are:
http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/PuddletagScreenshot-002

The second to last cool feature I can think of is that you can configure 
your own fields in the tag panel, and  you can choose the order that 
they appear in, how many fields to one line, etc...:
http://www.afolkey2.us/gallery3/index.php/Assorted/PuddletagScreenshot-003
The ampersands are used to make the letter that follows it a keyboard 
shortcut to directly enter that field.

I'm finally going to do some testing, and get back to you with some 
issues that I have had with finding and replacing in fields with 
Easytag.  In a nutshell, sometimes when Easytag won't find and replace 
stuff that is clearly present in the tags, I will go over to Puddletag 
just to do the finding and replacing, and come back to Easytag to finish 
my tagging/renaming.

In closing, I just want to thank you for a few things that I REALLY like 
about Easytag, that Puddletag CANNOT do:
"Preserve Modification Time When Writing Files"
I uncheck that, so that when I make changes to my tags that do NOT 
affect the name of the file, then when I rsync my music collection to my 
media server, it gets the modified version.  Otherwise, it does not 
think that the file has changed in any way...

Also, Puddletag silently changes/removes illegal characters such as "?" 
and ":"  Easytag gives me the choice of whether I want to allow illegal 
characters or not.

Steven P. Ulrick