Feature Request: Click Genre Drop Down List & Select

Support
1

Currently in the list view if you right-click on the genre field and get the drop down list to select the genre that would be helpful for editing.

2

Do you really mean the list view or do you mean the Tag Panel?
I don't find a dropdown field for any field in the list view.
Also, if a right-click on a field in the file list, I get a context menu with a number of functions like cut and paste fields but no genre list.

Or is your request that you want to get a dropdown list for the column that shows the genre in the file list?

3

Meaning the main view where you see the list of files within the folder you're working in.

4

You see the loaded files.
This is not necessarily a single folder.
But yes, that is the file list.
And I don't know what genre list you refer to when you right-click as I get a number of functions but none of them deals with the genre.
You can call a user-defined action from this context menu and that action could set a genre. So if you have a list of frequently used genres, try that.

5

I will look into it. Thanks for the tip

6

Coming back to this, I think people misunderstood what I meant

I understand you can define custom genres and you can click and type (which is handy in itself)

But when you're processing many files at once you need to be able to tag tracks quickly.

So if there was a drop down arrow in the genre field when the list would drop down and you could select from the list vs typing.

This would speed up the workflow.

7

The best way to assign the same data to a lot of files is to use the functions and fields in the tag panel.
And there, all the fields have dropdown lists and you can define preset values not only for genre.

AFAIK the lists use incremental search to jump to the nearest entry in the list.

8

Actually I found a simpler workaround. I to turn off the messaging for unsaved actions.

Then enabled the click save option.

What was killing me is the message popping up everytime I selected a block of files. Then I changed the genre by typing and clicking back in the list to save the change.

Now it works the way I need it to.