by phantomwhale » Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:58 pm
Hi,
Love MM, but just hit something "unexpected" that lost me quite a bit of useful data.
I accidently hit ALT+3 (instead of CTRL+ALT+3, a global defined hotkey to rate the now playing song) whilst in the MM4 interface. It froze up. I wondered why, as I'd only asked it to rate one song (which I normally do whilst in another app, but I happened to be in MM4). I waiting patiently for the MM4 interface to recover from the "frozen faded look" and after a few minutes killed it.
Of course, what I had done has hit "rate selected", which I hadn't realised. And because at that very point I had a playlist of 10,000 songs selected, it was trying to go through and rate ALL of them as 3 stars ! In the end, it only overwrote 1,000 song ratings, but this is still quite a lot of scores I've lost now. The freeze was probably as I run my music off a NAS, and much of it is FLAC, so there is a lot of network latency and large file writing involved.
So my feature request is for hotkeys that perform mass-tagging, to have a pop-up warning similar to selecting a lot of files, and bringing up the edit tag properties screen. I'm sure even "power users" wouldn't mind an extra button click before committing 10,000+ changes to there tagged libraries !
Until then, I might have to be a little more pro-active on killing MM when it freezes up, as in this case it meant it was doing quite a large amount of unexpected processing work against my precious music collection :
Thanks,
Ben
Hi,
Love MM, but just hit something "unexpected" that lost me quite a bit of useful data.
I accidently hit ALT+3 (instead of CTRL+ALT+3, a global defined hotkey to rate the now playing song) whilst in the MM4 interface. It froze up. I wondered why, as I'd only asked it to rate one song (which I normally do whilst in another app, but I happened to be in MM4). I waiting patiently for the MM4 interface to recover from the "frozen faded look" and after a few minutes killed it.
Of course, what I had done has hit "rate selected", which I hadn't realised. And because at that very point I had a playlist of 10,000 songs selected, it was trying to go through and rate ALL of them as 3 stars ! In the end, it only overwrote 1,000 song ratings, but this is still quite a lot of scores I've lost now. The freeze was probably as I run my music off a NAS, and much of it is FLAC, so there is a lot of network latency and large file writing involved.
So my feature request is for hotkeys that perform mass-tagging, to have a pop-up warning similar to selecting a lot of files, and bringing up the edit tag properties screen. I'm sure even "power users" wouldn't mind an extra button click before committing 10,000+ changes to there tagged libraries !
Until then, I might have to be a little more pro-active on killing MM when it freezes up, as in this case it meant it was doing quite a large amount of unexpected processing work against my precious music collection : :cry:
Thanks,
Ben