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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000770 | MMW v4 | Properties/Auto-Tools | public | 2003-10-14 00:52 | 2006-03-06 20:17 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | won't fix | ||
| Summary | 0000770: Add back 'Lookup Unknown Cds' | ||||
| Description | Songs-DB had a feature to Lookup Unknwon CDs that allowed un-connected users to easily retrieve data from Freedb for numerous CDs at once. This feature was removed from MM because of UI clutter, but it appears that some users miss it. I have an idea of how to add it back without introducing clutter: -Introduce a new node for Location/CDs, which would contain all CDs -The context menu for this node can have an entry 'Lookup Unknown CDs' This i) helps cleanup the Locations node and ii) meets the need of these users. This isn't critical for the 2.1 release, but is a nice to have. | ||||
| Additional Information | Raised at: http://www.songs-db.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=694 | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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I would defer this one for the next release, because I think it will be better to fix it together with other Freedb changes (add of Freedb submit, possibly local Freedb). The main reason is that the feature shouldn't be returned back to MM without some modifications, e.g. when a CD isn't found in Freedb, it's always queried by this function - it should be fixed, as I wrote probably as a part of adding Submit feature. |
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As discussed over IM: -CD can be flagged as having been looked up if the user has manually altered any track entries for the CD or if the lookup has failed (because the data isn't in freedb--not because of a connection failure). -There are 3 possible ways of implementiong this: 1) Via the maintain database function add an entry to 'Get Album info from Freedb for albums not yet looked up' 2) Via a new context menu entry for CDs along the lines of: 'Get Album info from Freedb for albums not yet looked up' -- I think that this is the worst option. 3) By using the existing context menu entry 'Get Album info from Freedb' on a new node that contains all unlooked up CDs. This node could be entitled 'CDs missing information' (and it could be in the Files to Edit node or in the Location node). |
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During MM development this seem to became unnecessary, it doesn't seem to be needed. |
