Comment 4 for bug 1431925

I filed two similar and related bugs a long time ago, here they are:

-bug #1085691
-bug #1093598

The second one, lasso select, may seem unrelated, but it would help make it easier to be selective about selecting, if you catch my drift.

I think the idea of a progress bar is odd, though I'm not rejecting it. I find it odd because it doesn't offer anything but corroboration, in other words, you can already watch the BPM data pop into existence when viewing the analyze pane in the library. A progress bar would largely be gloss IMHO. Not useless, but more like eye candy.

Something to consider is that there is already a popup that works visually just fine when you have Mixxx set to rescan Library on startup. I don't know why we couldn't just repurpose this, effectively making it multipurpose. The objection would be that you don't want a popup in front of your Mixxx while you're using it, but if you're analyzing your whole collection it probably isn't time to be mixing anyway. If I get pushback on this with "no, you should be able to run analysis on 1,400 tracks and DJ at the same time" then maybe the popup idea doesn't work. But currently it seems seamless with good parts of the current workflow.

I love the idea of having per-playlist or per-crate analysis. That seems tangential and that it should be a new bug, however.

Here ya go: bug #1432143

"It makes sense to me to have the options for selecting different portions of the library next to the library display and keep all functions for manipulating the library in the main menu bar."

I interpret this as "whole library actions=menu, single item in library actions=library pane". If so, this seems logical. It ignores traditional window organization in which typical right-click options for files are mirrored in the "file" menu at the menubar, but Mixxx ignores that tradition anyway.