Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Proposal for first-generation Musicbrainzintegration

[John Russell <drjimmy42 yahoo com>]

> If you refer to my original mail and what Colin was saying.  It doesn't 
> have to be a monolithic application.  The second application be tightly 
> integrated with the main application.  Rhythmbox could be a suite of 
> programs not just one program.  It would be advantageous to do so since we 
> can develop the same look at feel.  I think it will be quire workable.  
> Otherwise ui-wise it will be challenge to include it all.
> 

I think it would be harder to explain to new users "Well you can edit
just one tag at a time from the properties dialog, but if you want to do
more than one, just shoot on over to this other application, rb-tagger
(please don't let that catch on) and edit them there.  Huh?   Yeah well
you can edit just one tag from there too, but that's easier from
rhtyhmbox...."  I wouldn't want to have that conversation with anyone.  

In terms of how to do it with the UI, iTunes has obviously done it, but
I actually think that gtkpod has the most powerful and easiest tag
editing I've ever seen.  Same basic UI as itunes and rb, but all of the
fields are like files in nautilus, press f2 to edit anything you want
right there.  If many things are selected, they all get changed to
whatever you type in.  It even works in the browser for changing an
entire genre from Classical to Romantic, or whatever.  It couldn't get
any easier.  This way there aren't even any additions to the UI, just a
change from the noneditable entries there now, to file-list like
entries.  I think this would be the most intuitive and feel like its
most integrated with gnome because it behaves more like a file manager. 
Sorry if I started to ramble.  That's my take.

John


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