Running Task Queue is sensitive to doubleclick
Hi,
I like your beatTunes quite a lot. Matchlist creation works really well.
But what I have found is, that the running task queue is
sensitive to
doubleclick enabling changes to the displayed id3 tags.
If I doubleclick accidently on a running waiting queue entry, I can
change
song tags. Even worse, since the queue is changing, changeable
(with
an input-enabled field) tag-values can hop from song to song
(partially
messing up the tags), and get written as soon as I click on another
list
entry (and disable the modifyable entry).
What I would expect is, that the running task list is read-only.
No
changes allowed in this list. It just displays whats running in the
background.
Okay, this is not the wishlist. What I would like to have are
the most
important features of powertunes. These are fix dead tracks and
find orphans in the itunes library. So I can use only one
complementary
tool for itunes.
Regards and best wishes,
Michael.
Changed: Fixed a typo.
2 Posted by MK on 21 Jul, 2010 02:27 PM
I use beatunes 2.1.11, itunes 9.2.1, os x 10.6.4
Support Staff 3 Posted by hendrik on 21 Jul, 2010 05:56 PM
Noted.
How are those powertunes features not covered by beaTunes' inspections?
-hendrik
4 Posted by MK on 21 Jul, 2010 06:11 PM
Well,
I have beatunes since yesterday, so it is fairly new for me.
In the properties->inspektion window I have found the
"missing files" mentioned. This seems to be similar to the "fix dead tracks in powertunes.
But I have not seen the "find orphans" of powertunes in
beatunes. It searches the media folder for files, that are missing
in the itunes library.
Support Staff 5 Posted by hendrik on 21 Jul, 2010 06:15 PM
Yeah, you're right - that's not in there by default.
Part of it is covered by http://blog.beatunes.com/2010/03/deleting-orphaned-files-ii.html though. Perhaps I should add that for beaTunes 3...
-hendrik
6 Posted by MK on 21 Jul, 2010 08:29 PM
I read, that there are some plugins available. I will give it a try and see...
I have some ideas about improving bpm recognition accuracy.
I read here that not all first time users are sufficient with the bpm recognition.
What I would think of could be an improvent based on using the genre tag of a properly tagged itunes database as hinting for the bpm algorithm to decide, which intervall for the bpm value is appropriate.
I had also slight problems in the beginning. The default values of rayshot algorith and automatic sounded good (actiually I didn't understand a word what I should choose and the predefined values sounded good ;-).
After I did rtfm, I found out that I really should choose something better, and I picked, of course, the recommendation of 70-140 bpms mentioned in the manual.
Therefere, I think of using hinting based on the music genre, like Pop, Rock, Alternative, unlikely does more than 120, so a couple of profiles, that are chosen, based on genre could be helpful.
I am not sure, if this really works out well, but giving it a try with a few dubios songs (like pop ballads with a dominant conga, like the Sade Song, mentioned in another post) and a few hardwired bpm-profiles based on the genre, at least could be worth the try.
Support Staff 7 Posted by hendrik on 28 Jul, 2010 02:20 PM
Thanks for the input, Michael!
-hendrik