The very thing I miss from Amarok is its ability of easily manage and edit large amounts of song tags.
Exaile ability to do that is quite limited and I feel there's plenty of room for improvement.
Specifically, exaile could:
* when a lot of songs are selected, and "Edit informations" is activated, there's no way to proceed
forward or backward through the list of songs. Instead, just the first one is shown / edited.
* the items in the RMB-menu for changing song informations are redundant: they allow to edit a
single field (popping up an annoying window just for a text input). "Edit information" is the only useful
item, since all the other infos can be changed from that. Amarok let you change a bunch of ids (like setting
the album / genre tag for a group of selected files), or to act on a per-song basis from its editing window.
* allow changing tags like amarok does right inside the treeview. A single click on an already selected song
could activate editing mode for a given column. When confirming the value with the "enter" key, the following
row in the treeview should be put in editing mode.
* when no id3 is set, it could better guess song informations based on some sort of heuristic
* it could allow for automatically translating song names in some format decided by the user:
lowercase, UPPERCASE, Camel Case. However, this isn't so important after all.
Additionally, it would be nice:
* renaming files on disk given the tags of the songs in the library, skipping those where tags aren't set
but maybe this goes in a separate ticket.
Cheers,
matteo
This ticket was migrated from the old trac: re #644
Most of this I believe has been added by the new tagger.