Auto-complete

[amarcord]

I guess this feature was expected by many of us, however I have three suggestions to improve it:

1) One "commonly used field" (at least for me, and probably for most classical music listeners) was omitted: the composer.

2) The auto-completion is sometimes replacing what I have typed by something of a different case, and there's no way to cancel this auto-replace.
Suppose that I have an album named "MEMORIES OF THE ALHAMBRA". I don't like the name in capital letters, so I go to the properties to edit it. When I have typed enough characters, such as "Memories of t", they are automatically replaced by the upper-case name. The only way to work-around this is to type everything but the first character, then add the first character in the end!

3) I often tend to type on the ENTER key when i agree with the auto-completion. But the ENTER key validates and closes the whole dialog content... It would be more intuitive if the first hit on ENTER, in an auto-complete field, validated the replacement of the user's input with the suggested string (and this could fix problem #2 by the way).

[judas]

I agree completely with your comments...the casing problem has occured to me and i think i mentioned it somewhere.

[Teknojnky]

To work around the autocompletion capitalizaion problems, intentionally mispell the first couple letters (so it does no autocomplete), type out the rest of the field the way you want, then go back and correct the earlier misspelling.

Works (around) for me.

[Lowlander]

2) is annoying. I too have found work arrounds, but it shouldn't be like that.

[rusty]

1) We have a spec for some basic improvements to support for classical music. I don't expect that we'll fit this into 2.5.1, but it's on the list for 2.5.2.

2) Thanks for the reminder. Hopefully we'll fit it in...no promises.

3) Need to think about this one (and observe some users)...

-Rusty

[Lowlander]

3) Probably depends on user. I'm a web person so enter means submit for me.

[amarcord]

3) Probably depends on user. I'm a web person so enter means submit for me.

Thanks, this reminds me an analogy with web browsers
In Firefox (and I believe it is the same in IE), when you have auto-complete enabled, if you start typing something like your e-mail in a text field, a drop-down list shows up, and you can select the relevant entry with arrow keys, then hit ENTER. The first hit does not submit, it just selects the auto-completion entry. You have to hit ENTER a second time to submit.

[rusty]

Not exactly. Just tested firefox and after you use the arrows to select the 'right' auto-complete entry, pressing <Enter> brings the user to the page.

So there is a 2 step process, but the first step involves selection of the 'right' guess. This, I believe, is where MM is lacking--in the fact that the current implementation doesn't give the user a choice.

-Rusty