UI: How to make MusicBrainz dialog shine, or noob needs help.

[Lukas]

Keeping in mind what Sergey and Stefan said:

* Use some sort of pagination (Load next). Imagine if user clicks on
"Various artists" node and sends 1k+ tracks o be retagged? Its not rational
to search for them all at once. Dividing them by groups of 20/40/100 should
be enough

* Might be it is worth separating Close/ Distant/ Not found/ No change
results. I don't know if tabs (one tab per category) is the best solutions
(or is it better to use some drop down with check boxes + different
backgrounds?)

* Search at the same time on all services. Matching results should be
displayed in one line (badges MB and MD symbolyzes, what services suggested
this data), Otherwise one service/result per row.

p.s.
> 'cos It also update/add MB Track ID to file. User may accept or
does it means, if MB Track ID is set, next time user runs search on the same
track, it is skipped from search (auto added to no-change)?

Lukas

On 27 October 2010 12:57, Stefan Derkits <stefan at derkits.at> wrote:

> this. Here I have a Song called Artist - Song1 ... I always wanted to
> know what the correct Tags would be. Let's try it"
> So he tries it and first MusicBrainz Search starts. And it doesn't give
> the right Results. He has no Idea that MusicDNS Search, which he
> afterwards could start manuallly would give him better Results. So he
> tries it with another Song. Same thing, no good Result.
>
> The in my opinion, most important Use Case of MusicBrainz directly in
> Amarok is to get the Tags of incorrectly tagged Songs. And I must admit,
> I also found (via some Songs that had correct filenames but incorrect
> tags) MusicBrainz to be shitty because it could not often deliver me
> correct Results. Maybe I would like the Feature more if it would have
> automatically, as first Option searched via MusicDNS.
>
> Long Mail, short Point: Throw out "Tag based search" and just do
> Fingerprint Search. Users won't often click on "Start search via
> MusicDNS" ... or it is one click too much. Give them the better Option
> right away :)
>
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