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When dragging and dropping a large number of songs onto a Genre, it is very easy to damage the selected songs as follows:

1. Drag them over the desired Genre
2. Drop them to the genre
3. Realise that just before you released the mouse, the Genre node was auto-expanded, and you've just dropped the songs onto a random Artist name, changing the Artist of several hundred tracks with no obvious way of undoing this.

I think it's a pretty serious usability bug that needs fixing. If there was an Undo feature then this would be just a minor point, but it is currently way too easy to permanently damage the tags in this way.

I think that the Genre node expanding is unnecessary. If you _must_ expand the genre node then the node must not move relative to the screen - so that releasing the mouse before and after the expansion would do the exact same thing.

P.S. Personally I don't see any use in the auto-expansion in the case of Genres - it interferes with the process of assigning lots of genres to lots of tracks, since every auto-expanded node needs to be _manually_ collapsed afterwards (to make the other genres visible again). I'd really appreciate a way to turn this off, but that's only a wishlist item whereas the rest of what I describe I consider to be a bug.

P.P.S. MediaMonkey 3.0.3.1137

I agree, this has long been a hazard of drag/drop onto nodes, especially as you note for genre's and other classification nodes, but still applies to all.

Aside from the usability isse of having to collapse the nodes that you did not want expanded, the root issue is that the tree window view slides up so that that the now needlessly expanded node has moved the destination node to the top of the tree window.

This will be fixed (by preventing changes in position of the node) in 3.0.3 b2.

-Rusty