Handling of lyrics for tracks not in the Local Collection

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Chinmay Bapat <cdbapat92 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>The collection is there for a reason: to show what the user has. It
>>makes little to no sense to start handling tracks that are not in the
>>collection, if the users has them they should be added to the
>>collection first.
>
> But I can add a song to the current playlist by say drag-dropping it from a
> file browser, even if it is not in the collection. I can edit the Artist
> etc. tags for the track. A user might not know that the lyrics are not saved
> in the tags but in the db. If he tries to save the lyrics shouldn't he be
> see an error that they cannot be saved if the track is not in the
> collection? Otherwise he would have no way to figure out why he can edit the
> Artist but not the lyrics, and the saving fails without any error.

Then we should implement to save the lyrics to the id3 tag, that would
be this feature request:  https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291727

Consider the discussion about this open :)


Regards, Myriam

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