HRH
04-24-2011, 05:03 PM
Just upgraded from version 3.98 to 4.00. I was hoping that some of the shortcomings of 3.98 were finally resolved, unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. A nice new feature has been added and that's the addition of album art except that there doesn't appear to be any way of stopping it! I don't particularly want the album art but the only way I can find to remove it is by editing each track individually and selecting 'delete art'. How difficult would it be to put a tick box in settings to switch this 'feature' off? A bug in 3.98 was that only updated the ID3v2 tag with the genre. Is it fixed in v4? No, except that now it only updates the ID3v1 tag and not the ID3v2 tag?????
Is auto tagging any better? Again no, as a test I streamed (from Spotify at 320kbs) one of Frank Sinatras most popular albums from 1954 - 'In The Wee Small Hours'. Of the 16 tracks it recognised 11 but of those 11 it got the track numbers wrong on 6 of them. Isn't it about time someone at Applian addressed this abysmal tagging problem. After all, the website blurb states 'Tags songs with Title, Artist, Album, Genre - Automatically!' It doesn't mention that it is only capable of doing it for less than 10% of tracks.
If Applians programmers have time to change the artwork and colour scheme for no apparent reason then surely they've got time to make the actual software work as claimed.
As an afterthought, why can't I resize the form. It's far too small and I'm forever having to scroll the ListView control to see all the tracks and columns.
Is auto tagging any better? Again no, as a test I streamed (from Spotify at 320kbs) one of Frank Sinatras most popular albums from 1954 - 'In The Wee Small Hours'. Of the 16 tracks it recognised 11 but of those 11 it got the track numbers wrong on 6 of them. Isn't it about time someone at Applian addressed this abysmal tagging problem. After all, the website blurb states 'Tags songs with Title, Artist, Album, Genre - Automatically!' It doesn't mention that it is only capable of doing it for less than 10% of tracks.
If Applians programmers have time to change the artwork and colour scheme for no apparent reason then surely they've got time to make the actual software work as claimed.
As an afterthought, why can't I resize the form. It's far too small and I'm forever having to scroll the ListView control to see all the tracks and columns.