Bug 62307 - retag by drag and drop
Summary: retag by drag and drop
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: juk
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Scott Wheeler
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Reported: 2003-08-07 08:58 UTC by John Firebaugh
Modified: 2009-07-05 17:29 UTC (History)
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Description John Firebaugh 2003-08-07 08:58:54 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.1.9)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 20030728 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-3-k7

The killer feature that I've always wanted but not seen in any jukebox software: the ability to retag files via drag and drop. I'd like to:

- Drag a list selection to an artist in the tree to change the artist tag.
- Drag a list selection to an album in the tree to change the album tag.
- Drag a list selection to a genre in the tree to change the genre tag.

Dragging tree entries around could work similarly. This would make it very easily to consolidate various spellings of an artist's name into the preferred spelling. For example, in my collection I have "REM" and "R.E.M.". I'd love to be able to drag the "REM" entry onto the "R.E.M." entry and have all the appropriate mp3s retagged, and the "REM" node removed.
Comment 1 Scott Wheeler 2003-08-07 11:53:54 UTC
Hmm, cool idea.  It will require Yet Another Playlist (or specifically SearchPlaylist) subclass, 
but that's fine.  I would of course also want to prompt the user for confirmation, but that alas, 
these are both just implementation details. 
Comment 2 Uwe Ristok 2003-09-04 22:46:57 UTC
That is very cool, but with renaming the file in the same step :) 
Comment 3 Michael Pyne 2004-06-22 20:42:23 UTC
I added this yesterday to CVS, it will be in KDE 3.3 Beta 1.  You can drag tracks from the song list onto an artist, genre, or album while using the Collection List tree view mode.

I'll see about adding support for dragging whole playlists onto a category later, but we'll have to see about that. :-D
Comment 4 Daniel Molkentin 2005-01-09 06:46:14 UTC
It should also be possible to have items from the treeview as drag source. E.g. dragging "Madona" onto "Madonna" should retag all files.
Comment 5 Jonas Vejlin 2009-07-05 17:29:28 UTC
Is this still valid in juk 4.2.4?