Comment 0 for bug 1581251
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| RAWRR (rawrr) wrote Analyze menu option for Playlists and Crates does not visually add tracks to Analyze pane | #0 |
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I had one or two tracks manually added to the analyze pane and decided to try out the new feature, "Analyze entire Playlist". It clearly was working because BPMs started appearing in the BPM column.
However, I went to the Analyze pane to watch the progress and there was nothing there but the few tracks I had manually added earlier. I had expected that the Analyze option in the Playlist menu would shunt the tracks over to the Analyze pane.
I wonder if this is an undecided workflow?
Obviously I feel it intuitive to dump the list of whatever is being analyzed - regardless of what pane or menu the command originates from - to the Analyze pane as a visual progress readout.
However, absent lasso select (bug #1093598) it does get a bit unwieldy to select from huge quantities of files in the Analyze pane, so I could see a case for deliberately isolating tracks at their visual point of origin.
A logical alternative option would be to change "Analyze entire Playlist" to "Add Playlist to Analyze" where the tracks would be simply added but not automatically analyzed and could be manually selected at the Analyze pane. This requires more clicks by the user however, and might seem less powerful.
Ultimately I think visually dumping anything that is being analyzed to the Analyze pane is the most straightforward visually and intuitively, regardless of whether bug #1093598 is addressed (though especially if it is).