Dancer wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:21 am
I wanted to delete one track of an album because it was there twice. I clicked on 3 dots right of track and selected "remove" from database and hard drive, but unfortunately the whole album was deleted from the hard drive instead.
Luckily I still had it on another device.
This seems to be a bug, right?
My guess is No, but I do agree that there is room for improvement.
You spoke of the the three dot menu for a track. So you were in Grid View, and you had an album's inline panel open ...
like this? ... The remainder of this post is written making this assumption.
The click on the three dot menu invokes the context menu, but does not alter what is selected.
The whole album would have been selected, and your click did not alter that selection.
You clicked the Remove option, and that is programmed to remove all "selected" tracks.
The confirmation panel would have said "Are sure that you want to delete N tracks?"
And the Status Bar at the bottom of the main panel would have showed you how many track were currently selected (see the red box in my 1st illustration).
If you had clicked the track, before clicking the three dots, you would have narrowed the selection to just the clicked track, and only that track would have been deleted.
You may be unhappy about this, but if a click on a three dot menu DID ALTER what was selected, how would you delete a selected group of tracks?
I do think that the behaviour could be improved. The track were you clicked would have been a different colour to all the other tracks in the album.
This could seem to indicate that it is just that track is "selected".
Actually it just showed the current focus point. ... ie you are positioned on that specific track, and an arrow key will move you in the arrows orientation, from that position.
It would be clearer that a click on, or hover over, the track's three dot menu toggled off the colour focus change for the track, so that it didn't give the appearance of the track being "selected". I think that would improve things. What do you think?