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

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

Hi all,
sorry that I haven't replied to this very very interesting thread yet. I am 
reading it but I could not find the time to think about the suggestions 
thoroughly yet. 
I hope I'll find that time in the next few days so I can actually join the 
discussion.
Regards,
Thomas

> > > What do you mean? That new data should be fetched only from single
> > 
> > provider?
> > 
> > > Or there should be something like "Check All" functionality?
> > 
> > I mean "Check All".
> 
> It could be done like in gmail -
> http://en.onsoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/gmail-04.png - but
> offering options: Update empty fields, Close match only (also the closest,
> if 2 is almost identical), from MusicBrainz, from MusicDNS,  none.
> 
> > Do you mean I should use TagDialog instead of separate MBTagger
> > dialog? Then there are to 2 ways to implement It: left single-track
> > search only (It's ridiculous and pointless), or completely rebuild
> > TagDialog.
> 
> I'll get a bit longer (and offtopic) here. There is a little problem in
> naming: *tags* in last.fm == *labels* in Amarok, *tags* in Amarok == ???
> last.fm. In my last replay I used *tags* instead of *labels*, talking in
> Amarok speech.
> Thats why I'm going to use *meta data* in here. Lets split possible meta
> data in 2 groups:
> 
> * Objective - If track has title, artist, album, year - thats it, you
> can't/should't/would't change that.
> Such data should to be set up in Tagger dialog (as it is getting
> implemented now). It will be later used to find additional meta data.
> 
> * Aditional/Subjective - genre, tags, moods, labels etc. There a many
> places (like last.fm, amazon) where you can find it. Usually messed up in
> a single pot and mutch more than user needs.
> As a rational user having 1-10k+ collcetion whats to be able to find right
> tracks, not only by title, but also "party" "relaxing" "beat" etc, without
> getting great mess in Labels database.
> 
> One of the ways to accomplish this is to get all candidate meta info as
> labels. Then add it if
> 1) same exists in DB (there is candidate "Rock" and "Rock" is used to label
> at least 1 other track)
> 2) similar exist in DB (there is candidate "rocck" and "Rock" is used to
> label at least 1 other track, add it as "Rock")
> 3) There is no similar Label, nor ban - Ask user what to do: Add or Ban it
> 
> Going back to topic, by saying "go to tagging dialog..." I had in mind more
> or less "Aditional/Subjective" part. It is separate task, and I don't know
> where is the best place to have such functionality, as it hardly fits into
> Autotagger interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> Lukas