by Mizery_Made » Tue Nov 29, 2011 1:29 am
nightrocket wrote:2) Upgrades to include playing video. Upgrades for smart phone usage. Fine. But I think the priority should have been to tighten up the fundamentals before jumping to add things. For example, it seems that I still need to advance through each file and click on the "Rename files according to file properties". Why can't all files be selected, open properties, and click that button once? Was it there in MM 3? That button doesn't show as an option for group editing when I select more than one tune.
You've always been able to rename multiple files based on their properties, at least since 2.5 which is where I came into the program. You just highlight all (or any number of files), right click and choose the "Auto-Organize files..." option. You can also access this from the "Tools" menu. Furthermore, there's also a background process you can set up to do this (it was a Gold feature in v3, not sure if it remained a Gold feature in v4 or not) in the options on the "Auto-Organize" page. This allows you to set up rules, which renames the files automatically if the tags (or conditions) change.
nightrocket wrote:3) I recognize the trend these days is to go with lighter, almost see-through colors. (Google calendar comes to mind: colors so light you don't know where the boundaries of things are). But this new default scheme is so translucent and light that it lacks punch.
The software offers a simple solution to this, change the skin. I don't care for lighter skins either, but as you note it's the current trend. While not software, I've asked a few individuals who run websites who did redesigns to lighter skins and they cited that it's "more professional looking" than a darker skin. Brighter and more inviting or some nonsense. Luckily though, there are some darker skins already developed for the program. v3 skins should work for the most part with v4, and some skinners are working on v4 versions now that v4 is officially released which will take advantage of features added or to skin areas which weren't there in v3, etc.
nightrocket wrote:5) Again, sticking with the idea of solid basics, a handful of totally new skins would also have been welcomed.
The program hasn't really ever had a large number of default skins, which may be a good thing as that would add to the package size of the installer. MM4 gave us a revamped "Vitreous" skin and from what I recall, it's pretty much a "new" skin as it's been drastically revamped (unless I'm thinking of the wrong MM3 skin) as well as Pulse. There was one other that was included early on, but was later removed as a default skin. It was a dark one too. Not sure what the reasoning was behind that. Regardless, the community has a number of skins already available, and I would imagine we'll see some MM4 specific skins popping up soonish now that it's been released into the wild. I think there's already a few MM4 skins and ports that were done during the Beta process.
[quote="nightrocket"]2) Upgrades to include playing video. Upgrades for smart phone usage. Fine. But I think the priority should have been to tighten up the fundamentals before jumping to add things. For example, it seems that I still need to advance through each file and click on the "Rename files according to file properties". Why can't all files be selected, open properties, and click that button once? Was it there in MM 3? That button doesn't show as an option for group editing when I select more than one tune.[/quote]
You've always been able to rename multiple files based on their properties, at least since 2.5 which is where I came into the program. You just highlight all (or any number of files), right click and choose the "Auto-Organize files..." option. You can also access this from the "Tools" menu. Furthermore, there's also a background process you can set up to do this (it was a Gold feature in v3, not sure if it remained a Gold feature in v4 or not) in the options on the "Auto-Organize" page. This allows you to set up rules, which renames the files automatically if the tags (or conditions) change.
[quote="nightrocket"]3) I recognize the trend these days is to go with lighter, almost see-through colors. (Google calendar comes to mind: colors so light you don't know where the boundaries of things are). But this new default scheme is so translucent and light that it lacks punch.[/quote]
The software offers a simple solution to this, change the skin. I don't care for lighter skins either, but as you note it's the current trend. While not software, I've asked a few individuals who run websites who did redesigns to lighter skins and they cited that it's "more professional looking" than a darker skin. Brighter and more inviting or some nonsense. Luckily though, there are some darker skins already developed for the program. v3 skins should work for the most part with v4, and some skinners are working on v4 versions now that v4 is officially released which will take advantage of features added or to skin areas which weren't there in v3, etc.
[quote="nightrocket"]5) Again, sticking with the idea of solid basics, a handful of totally new skins would also have been welcomed.[/quote]
The program hasn't really ever had a large number of default skins, which may be a good thing as that would add to the package size of the installer. MM4 gave us a revamped "Vitreous" skin and from what I recall, it's pretty much a "new" skin as it's been drastically revamped (unless I'm thinking of the wrong MM3 skin) as well as Pulse. There was one other that was included early on, but was later removed as a default skin. It was a dark one too. Not sure what the reasoning was behind that. Regardless, the community has a number of skins already available, and I would imagine we'll see some MM4 specific skins popping up soonish now that it's been released into the wild. I think there's already a few MM4 skins and ports that were done during the Beta process.
