So, after my comments last week, here's the list of things I'd like to see improved in Emplode.

There are some more, but I figured I'd post these for now.

Nick.

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D&D = Drag and Drop
WE = Windows Explorer
LHP = Left hand pane
RHP = Right hand pane
Ed = Emplode
Eg = Empeg
PITA = Pain in the arse
PL = Playlist

1 - D&D of a directory from WE to Ed works fine if dragging to RHP of Ed window. Dragging to LHP adds the little box to the mouse pointer and highlights the appropriate parts, but dropping has no effect. There is no warning that nothing has happened. (note, this works fine for single files - it's just directories which exhibit this problem).

2 - D&D within Ed - Panes don't autoscroll when mouse hits top/bottom boundaries. This makes moving a song within a playlist a very time consuming process if the playlist has lots of entries. Also makes copying a song from one playlist to another a PITA.

3 - I can understand why D&D in the RHP works the way it does (i.e. just moves a track's position within a PL, not actually moving the track to within another PL), but it would be nice to have the option to make it work like WE - perhaps by D&D with the Shift or CTRL key pressed.

4 - Can't D&D from LHP into either LHP or RHP.

5 - No undo facility. Important when you've just moved a track from one PL into another rather than copying it.

6 - By default, when D&Ding within Ed, the default option is to move, with SHIFT/CTRL being required in order to do a copy instead. It would be nice to be able to change the (user selectable?) default action to be copy - certainly stop me screwing things up when I try to create new playlists!

7 - Can't minimise or move the main Ed window during syncs. This is a real PITA for long syncs.

8 - PL tags - as previously discussed. i.e. why can you set them and not be able to use them in a search?

9 - In 'synchronising' window, the 'Cancel' button is always greyed out (for Ethernet and Serial - I haven't used USB).

10 - Why is the LHP a tabbed box? The only available option is 'Playlists'. At the moment, it just reduces the screen real estate available for useful information by drawing a border round the whole lot.

11 - An option to turn off the display on the Eg while syncing would be nice.

12 - Playlist names and titles should be editable with the F2 key (as well as the Alt+Enter combination giving you access to properties).

13 - My Eg is called 'Catbert', and this is the name which shows up on starting Ed and the player on the Eg. Why does Ed then show it in the LHP as 'empeg-car'. For multiple windows with multiple Eg's, this would be an annoyance. Shouldn't the unit be described as 'Catbert'?

14 - After a sync, the sync window stays open and says (paraphrase) "Everything's OK, click to continue". When clicked on, the empeg-car collapses. I'd like to see a) an option to auto-close the sync window on successful completion, and b) be returned to exactly where I was in the playlist structure before I synced.

15 - Even though neither Ed or Eg use the original filename, it would be useful if Ed stored it and displayed it. This really is a personal preference one, but it would, for example, make sorting a playlist by hand much - if the original files had the track numbers in them, I wouldn't need to refer to anything else.

16 - The sync window should show the estimated time remaining (and possible the number of files done/remaining, the total bytes transferred and the data transfer rate).

17 - Changing playlist names. Imagine a list of playlists in LHP you want to rename. Move to the first one, hit Alt+Enter. Make changes. Hit return. Focus is not returned to that playlist, so you have to click on the next one, rather than just key down arrow. Note that this works as I would expect it to if the changes are made in the RHP.


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