Masstagging [Was: Re: : Genre aggregation feature]

[Elliot Pahl]

It would be quite interesting/useful if amarok highlighted songs in your 
collection/playlist that didn't have proper tags.

On Saturday 08 July 2006 04:41, Simon Bühler wrote:
> Am Freitag, 7. Juli 2006 17:54 schrieben Sie:
> > On 7/7/06, Simon Bühler <simon at aktionspotenzial.de> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I'd rather like to see an enhanced tagging support in amarok - as the
> > > whole collection thing is metadata based, it would be nice to have the
> > > possibility to improve the tagging consistency - especially when
> > > handling bigger collections. so, add e.g. the possibility to catch
> > > misspellings in genres or artist names and retag the whole bunch with
> > > one defined term - some wildcards or even regex stuff for the nerds
> > > should be fine =)
> >
> > [snip]
> > Why not just add all your inconsistently tagged tracks to the
> > playlist, highlight them all, and edit the tags you want to be synced.
> >
> > A tag spellchecker... that is not going to work very well. :P
>
> basically it's not that handy to find e.g. only an artist in a (quite big)
> collection as the search field searches for artist/title/album and
> furthermore when dealing with combinations of two or more artists this
> approach won't work as its not possible to change a part of the artist tag.
>
> eg sizzla, sizzler, sizzla kalonji, kalonji  should be renamed to Sizzla,
> this won't work when trying to fix it in a "capleton & sizzla" combination.
> this is where the wildcard thing has undisputed advantages.
>
> And just to make it clear - i'm not talking bout a spellchecker but the
> posibility to retag and consolidate the metadata which in party is nicely
> implemented (guess from filename stuff) and just misses some tiny bits :)
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