Re: [Usability] SoundJuicer "Submit Track Names" is unusable.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:44 +0200, Rohan Oberoi wrote:
> I'm sorry, but while your point of view is undeniably valid it reminds
> me irresistibly of the Dilbert comic strip in which an engineer says
> 
> "I'll make the command easy to remember, like 'CTRL-ALT-F4-DEL.' And
> if they forget that, they can just edit the source code in
> 'COMMAND.COM.' Perfect."
> 
> Just because you think something "isn't that hard", don't assume
> everybody else has the time or inclination to go through the learning
> curve as well.    Make things as simple and intuitive as possible, not
> as twisted and complicated as you personally are happy to put up with.
>  I would have thought that would be Usability 101.

I didn't say it was easy, I said it wasn't that hard. The web page is a
bit convoluted, and could do with a bit of help. But you're much better
of taking this with Musicbrainz directly, rather than expecting an
interface to be built into Sound-Juicer.

An interface in Sound-juicer would be much more complicated than you'd
expect, as Musicbrainz has concepts that wouldn't be easily translated
into a non-web UI (artists as their own, voting, strict naming of
tracks/artists, referencing, etc.).

Make the Musicbrainz website better, it's the right way to improve it.

At the same time, one thing that Sound-juicer could do, when a network
connection is available, is allow to add disc IDs to an existing release
(ie. a disc already present with a different ID on Musicbrainz) without
going through the interface.

I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436913 about it.

That would take care of most cases for end-users, although
rare/incredibly new discs would still have problems.

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>