Autotag : possibility to choose which tag to update

[Géry Lebecq]

Hi,
MM5 Autotag is fine, simple, but sometimes less precise than MM4's one, which was complicated and often buggy... But you could get, with efforts, the very right version of the album, with the correct tags. MM5 only offers one answer, and sometime it's wrong...

So the possibility to choose what tag to update, with checkboxes on columns (like MM4 did) would be very useful.

(ex : most of the time, the date is the one this particular version was released. Exact same album than the original, but reissued 25 years later... What do i care that this CD05G3458 was released in 1987 when the album went out in 1969 ? Pfff. )

[Lowlander]

You can choose which tags to update globally.

You can change the looked up value manually.

Date is meant for the CD's release date, whereas Original Date is meant for when the track was originally released. You can obviously use it any way you want, but lookup also uses this method for Date.

[Géry Lebecq]

Ok. But the "globally" is the issue here. Possibility to choose by request, according to the result of the search would be a plus...

As for the Date vs Original Date, many softwares, including Windows explorer, don't bother with Original Date, except if you specifically set them up for it, so... Anyway, it was only an exemple.

Another one could be "Remaster 2023" Added on each track title. I don't want that, i don't care. Or track numbering with one digit instead of two (1 vs 01), which mess up with plenty of devices. I would find it practical to be able to disable those tag updates while updating others, depending of the album. Just by checking or not a tag column's box.

Having to go into configuration is not an option, just because you don't know the result of the search before, and therefore the tags you want or don't want. Same for Look up. These options were accessible from the tag panel in MM4, that was nice. But it crashed half the time, so... :/ As far as i tested this Autotag, it never crashed, but i had to cancel it quite often, i must say, to avoid bigger work after...

[christopher.wanko]

I'm going to jump into this request because I have a related problem with the auto-tag functionality.

Frequently, auto-tag will take a list of twelve tracks and return four albums with various subsets of the tracks.

I really believe auto-tag would be enhanced in reliability, consistency if auto-tag would first return a list of albums, and then a user could choose one album to use as a match for the tracks. The tag list that best matches all eligible tracks would be the one I might choose nine times out of ten. I know pulling in multiple tag listings might create more temp memory usage, but it does fill a need created when the Amazon lookups went away. The "what if?" modeling is powerful.

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[Rob_S]

I would also like the ability to select only certain tags for each track to be updated, even though I might want more or less of them for the next lookup.

Constantly having to go to options to reset what tags I might want before I even know what it is going to propose is not very user friendly.