by ariel » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:17 pm
chrisjj wrote:Please can we have Find More of Same > Title?
PLEASE tell me it'll be in v3 (I didn't see it in the list).
It's THE thing that makes me waste the most time in MM. Latest example, I got a CD of Forcefield which is all covers of songs I already have. What I want to do is listen to the tracks and if I like one, compare it to the other versions I have in order to decide which version I'll keep on the HD. To do this with MM v2 is murder while with WMP it's SO simple (switch to title view).
I've mentioned this request a number of times and with alternate solutions. Since the posts with details are buried in long threads, I'm appending below two relevant quotes.
Please!
Ariel.
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ariel wrote:Steegy wrote:Lowlander wrote:Adding title is a logical addition, but in my opinion of limited use.
In my opinion too. Unless you would use "find similar titles", but what would then be defined "similar"? Plus, this would demand a huge cpu performance to do this.
e.g. "The Moon" and "The Moon (Ferry Corsten Remix)" is not the same title.
e.g. "I feel thinder in my heart" and "I feel thunder in my heart" is not the same title. They also originate from the same song.
Searching manually (like you can do now) seems the best solution to me, as a human is mostly still smarter than the program when it comes to finding similar songs fast.
"Find identical" (not case sensitive) would already be a great help. This probably doesn't make sense to those who have mostly pop collections, but everyone who has also jazz, traditional, classical, etc, genres knows it's needed.
"Smarter" locates?
One option: compare until the first non-alphanumeric character in the title for which . I.e. find both "song" and "song (live)".
Another option: remove all non alpha-numeric characters from the titles and compare the just the alpha-numeric sequence. Much more computation intensive.
Neither is perfect, but any would be better than the current situation.
As for using "search" ...
In an MM "session" I typically do several things - listen and grade some track, convert others, burn to cd yet others, etc. I.e. I'm constantly moving from one track list to another.
The history of "search" is updated only at exit time (don't understand why) and you can't "back"/"forward" to specific searcches. Search is useless.
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ariel wrote:I'd like context menu options to "search this, basic" and "search this, advanced". The option would take the value of the column of the selected track for which the context menu was called and autofill the corresponding basic field or advanced search filter (without activating the search). The option should leave the focus on the just autofilled field/filter for subsequent editing.
The autofilled value should be added to the current search criteria, not replace them (except for basic criteria fields where title would replace title etc).
[That would include the title column]
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[quote="chrisjj"]Please can we have Find More of Same > Title?[/quote]
PLEASE tell me it'll be in v3 (I didn't see it in the list).
It's THE thing that makes me waste the most time in MM. Latest example, I got a CD of Forcefield which is all covers of songs I already have. What I want to do is listen to the tracks and if I like one, compare it to the other versions I have in order to decide which version I'll keep on the HD. To do this with MM v2 is murder while with WMP it's SO simple (switch to title view).
I've mentioned this request a number of times and with alternate solutions. Since the posts with details are buried in long threads, I'm appending below two relevant quotes.
Please!
Ariel.
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[quote="ariel"][quote="Steegy"][quote="Lowlander"]Adding title is a logical addition, but in my opinion of limited use.[/quote]In my opinion too. Unless you would use "find similar titles", but what would then be defined "similar"? Plus, this would demand a huge cpu performance to do this.
e.g. "The Moon" and "The Moon (Ferry Corsten Remix)" is not the same title.
e.g. "I feel thinder in my heart" and "I feel thunder in my heart" is not the same title. They also originate from the same song.
Searching manually (like you can do now) seems the best solution to me, as a human is mostly still smarter than the program when it comes to finding similar songs fast.[/quote]
"Find identical" (not case sensitive) would already be a great help. This probably doesn't make sense to those who have mostly pop collections, but everyone who has also jazz, traditional, classical, etc, genres knows it's needed.
"Smarter" locates?
One option: compare until the first non-alphanumeric character in the title for which . I.e. find both "song" and "song (live)".
Another option: remove all non alpha-numeric characters from the titles and compare the just the alpha-numeric sequence. Much more computation intensive.
Neither is perfect, but any would be better than the current situation.
As for using "search" ...
In an MM "session" I typically do several things - listen and grade some track, convert others, burn to cd yet others, etc. I.e. I'm constantly moving from one track list to another.
The history of "search" is updated only at exit time (don't understand why) and you can't "back"/"forward" to specific searcches. Search is useless.[/quote]
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[quote="ariel"]I'd like context menu options to "search this, basic" and "search this, advanced". The option would take the value of the column of the selected track for which the context menu was called and autofill the corresponding basic field or advanced search filter (without activating the search). The option should leave the focus on the just autofilled field/filter for subsequent editing.
The autofilled value should be added to the current search criteria, not replace them (except for basic criteria fields where title would replace title etc).[/quote]
[That would include the title column]
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