I've been a long time MP3 TAG on Windows and when it came out for MAC, I jumped on it right away. I use The Tagger currently, but it is no longer supported since moving to Apple Silicon, so I have been using MP3Tag more and more and getting used to it.
Very good job on the port over, and I am not complaining but a few things I wanted to mention.
The performance compared to The Tagger seems slow, when moving around the interface and saving tag info.
Maybe some people are ok with it and maybe you could add in some of these as options (and if I am doing something wrong, please let me know )
When I drag an image into the artwork section, I don't want to TAB out to have it save, just save it.
Is it possible to rename the shortcut for Discogs from CMD-I to CMD-D ?
Can the sidebar be moved to the RIGHT.
When editing extra tags, can there be a CLEAR ALL button and an X beside each tag in case I just want to clear it, I don't want to go into each item and press SPACE BAR to wipe it out.
Is there an option to have the tag SAVE IMMEDIATELY when I tab out of a field instead of clicking outside the sidebar? This slows me down.
Also why does the TRACK input field show the Track and Disknumber as 1/1, 2/1 etc.... I don't want this, I just want the track numbers. AND when saving tags to filename (or anywhere) - how can a ensure there is a pre-ceding 0 in front of 1-9 ? so 01 - 09?
On the HISTORY dropdown list for renaming files from tags or tags to files, can there be shortcuts assigned to the history? This way I don't even have to click on those options, I can just do CMD-ALT-1 or something....
I think that's it... again thank you for your hard work! I know these are mostly personal preferences but they would make my work go a lot faster.
This depends on how the data is saved in the tag field. MP3tag shows only that, what is there.
If you want to remove the totals, use Convert>Tag-Tag for TRACK
Format string: $num(%track%,1)
To get filenames with leading zeros, use $num(%track%,2) in the format string for the filename instead of the simple %track%.
The purpose of the tag panel is to gather data for all the selected files and save that to all the files in 1 go.
if you want to edit field by field, then use the file list.
Florian can speak to approval or disapproval for design changes as he is the developer, but I'll add some comments to your points.
Saving tags should be very fast. I haven't used Tagger, but I'm surprised it is faster. I have applied changes to literally tens of thousands of files in a matter of a few minutes, and that is using an external SSD for storage, which is much slower than the internal startup disk.
Changing this would be inconsistent with how MP3Tag edits works in the rest of the tag panel and I think consistency is important in design language. I think the functional reason for this approach is so you can edit the field (include the album art field), or even multiple fields, and only save the changes once select outside of the tag panel without the need to hit a separate confirmation button. To make any additional edits to other files you will need to select outside the tag panel anyway, so this seems like a sensible approach to me at least. There are keyboard shortcuts to switch between the tag panel and the file list, so that may help you to speed up your workflow if you memorize and use those shortcuts.
Yes. I just did it as a test. You can do this by using the same process to set custom keyboard shortcuts in any other application. This is a feature of macOS and is explained in this Apple support article: Create keyboard shortcuts for apps on Mac - Apple Support (CA)
That would be up to Florian to add that as a feature, but I certainly wouldn't mind that additional bit of customization either.
If you want to clear a field completely without entering the field, then use the Extended Tags window instead. Select the files you want to change in the file list, press CMD+T to open the Extended Tags window, select the field or fields you want to delete, press the minus symbol in the lower left (or the Delete key). You can do this to thousands of files at once if you want to make the exact same change. If you want to clear all of the tags for a specific file or files, you can just select them in the tag panel and you use CMD+X to cut the tags, or you can the Extended Tags panels and just select all tag fields before deleting. This can also be used to add standard or custom fields.
Are you referring to the Open Recent menu? You should be able to set a keyboard shortcut to the menu item itself as explained in "2." above, but since the individual items in the menu will have ever changing names you won't be able to set a shortcut to those. You can, however, search all the menus (including the names of those recent items), by opening the Help menu, which can be done with the standard macOS app shortcut CMD+SHIFT+?. Use that shortcut, the Help menu opens, then you can immediately type to search for any menu items and use the keyboard to select it from the search results, including the recent items in the Open Recent submenu.
Anyhow, to each their own of course, but just some thoughts that you might find helpful.
Thanks for the reply! Funny after I wrote this, I found the minus button in the extended tag editor. So that helps a lot.
The tagger has the ability that when I exit a field to another one, it updates that field. It does it for a group selection or for individual, which makes things fast and not needing to worry about clicking outside the editor, some people may prefer that way, it would be nice to have an option to enable or disable that .
I will see if I can incorporate some of your suggestions.
I did find onemore thing that hopefully can be updated.
When opening the CMD-I (see personally i find this a stretch to reach with my left hand, where as CMD-D would be closer -- but that's just my typing style) When I search a discogs catalog number, i can't hit ENTER, to search, I have to click on the search button, it would be nice to have this as an option to search that way to save on a mouse click)
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