[wishlist] button to update file names for whole library based on existing metadata

Bug #364525 reported by Dominic Evans
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Banshee
Confirmed
Wishlist
banshee (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
Nominated for Lucid by tuxracer

Bug Description

Binary package hint: banshee

I really like banshee's "Update file and folder names (Enabling this option ensures that files and folders are renamed according to their metadata" preference option, which keeps your ~/Music folder organized based on the folder hierarchy you specify.

However, currently this renaming only takes place when you save metadata to a file. It would be useful to have a button that causes this to happen for the whole library (e.g., so you can rename/reorganize on first import of an existing library). The only way to achieve this today is to select all songs, right click and choose 'edit track information' and then keep clicking Forward (or keep pressing ALT+F) to go through all the songs without changing any of the values, then on the final song hitting 'Save', this causes the renaming process to be invoked. It would be nice if this was more intuitive.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: banshee 1.4.3-3ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: banshee
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

Revision history for this message
Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :
Changed in banshee:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in banshee (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote :

Note that there is better software for media library management, e.g. Picard.

Changed in banshee:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
Changed in banshee:
status: New → Confirmed
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