Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Peter Panino
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Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Options -> Appearance -> Custom Fields:

PLEASE let each Custom Field have its own drop-down menu and let the user configure these drop-down menus here!
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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PS: From the same point of view, also the drop-down menus of the Classification fields Tempo, Mood, Occasion, Quality should be customizable!
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Peter Panino wrote:PS: From the same point of view, also the drop-down menus of the Classification fields Tempo, Mood, Occasion, Quality should be customizable!
They already are customizable...
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Really? As far as I have seen, in the fields Tempo, Mood, Occasion, Quality drop-down items can only be ADDED by writing a new item into the empty field; but the existing items are not REPLACED; they still remain there. With "Customizing" I mean EDITING the preset drop-down items (and of course adding new ones, which is already possible). This would be very useful (especially in the fields Mood, Occasion and Quality where different users might have different needs).
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You can remove any values from the Classifications node in the Media Tree by deleting it.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Lowlander wrote:You can remove any values from the Classifications node in the Media Tree by deleting it.
Thanks for the information - I didn't know this.

From the user perspective, one would expect to customize such things in the Preferences dialog, since the Media Tree is just a logical structural representation of the user-assigned and inherent properties of the content items.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Peter Panino wrote:
Lowlander wrote:
From the user perspective, one would expect to customize such things in the Preferences dialog, since the Media Tree is just a logical structural representation of the user-assigned and inherent properties of the content items.
Why? The artists drop down, album drop down, composer, etc. all work in the same way as the classification. It seems logical as-is.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Looking for a feature like this, I did a search in the Wishlist forum for "custom" and found three -- all by Peter. :)

I don't so much want configurable "dropdown menus" as much as autocompletion, like the tag feature in Picasa: when I start to type, it would be great to have a dropdown appear with existing values that match what I've typed, so I can just click. For instance, in one of my custom fields, I often type "instrumental"; with a feature like this I could do that in one or two characters and not have to worry about typos.

No need to remove obsolete values in the Options dialog; just select all the items with that value and delete the value.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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mcow wrote:...when I start to type, it would be great to have a dropdown appear with existing values that match what I've typed, so I can just click...
I agree, that would be very useful! I just need PRESET values to drop-down in the Custom fields. If these PRESET values are created by having typed them previously (like you suggest) or preconfigured in the Settings dialog (like I have suggested) isn't of much importance.

Modern user interfaces combine BOTH in one field:
1. Incremental Auto-lookup while writing (like you have suggested)
2. Drop-down button on the right-side which shows all preset values in a drop-down menu

As a seasoned programmer I know that implementing such a control is very easy...
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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mcow wrote:... and not have to worry about typos.
This Dropdown menu for Custom Fields requirement is essential - I have long muttered and grumbled about it's absence.

mcow, I agree about not have to worry about typos.

And if Peter is correct "As a seasoned programmer I know that implementing such a control is very easy..."

So. Let's have it please, Rusty.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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so how to add new moods, occasions and classifications..?
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Just type them in their respective fields and they'll be added.
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Post by sharevari »

Only just converted to MediaMonkey, and I'd definitely +1 this. I'm in the process of importing all my Last.fm tags into a custom field, but it will be very hard to keep adding to the tags without this feature.

Considering hi-jacking one of the existing classifications instead just to get this functionality...
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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Yes, dorpdowns for Custom fields would be a very good feature. At least it should work like for Genres, that new items in dropdown appear when you assign it to one of the tracks in the list.
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Re: Dropdown menus for Custom Fields

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It would be a nice touch
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