There are two things that I would like to see in both the Song and Style pickers.
One would be the ability to edit songs name/metadata/location/etc. in the picker. Unless I am missing something really huge, there is no way to rename or move/delete a song outside of moving the operation to the File Manager, find the often awkwardly named song in a folder, and do it there.
In fact, another useful feature would be to rename those songs from inside the picker directly (maybe with the original filename saved someplace) and a way to check if two files are identical or not from inside the song picker. Since many legacy files have DOS naming that might have been changed to "name-of-the-song-for-real.MGU" from WTF~SONG.mgu sometimes in the mid 2000 but I am carrying an identical copy because at the time I could not go look for and delete the original file/song. Am I making sense? I swear, I love BIAB like a child (I should, since I have had some version for as long as my daughter has been alive and she is 30+ now), but all the legacy stuff and the nested menus drive me insane sometimes.
Another thing I'd appreciate would be some kind of color coding in the pickers, but that can be a separate request since even my main brequest gets more confusing in my mind by the minute.
Thank you for reading this far. All of you that read my rants to this point are heroes.
You, me, and a thousand other People. Reducing redundancy is the theme going forward!!!!!
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You may be missing the Favorite's and User's Categories. These are custom lists of preferred Styles created by Users. They can be opened from the Chord Sheet without having to open the StylePicker.
Also, personal memo's can be attached to any Style in the StylePicker. The Personal memo may be overwritten if that particular Style is updated for some reason by PG Music developers but the User would just re-enter a memo if that happens.
You may be missing the Favorite's and User's Categories. These are custom lists of preferred Styles created by Users. They can be opened from the Chord Sheet without having to open the StylePicker.
Also, personal memo's can be attached to any Style in the StylePicker. The Personal memo may be overwritten if that particular Style is updated for some reason by PG Music developers but the User would just re-enter a memo if that happens.
Thank you for the kind reply. I did see the favorites and I have been using them. However, some styles I know I had set as favs did not survive the last update. Either that or I have duplicates that somehow are not showing the fav tag and have very similar names. I did find the user categories. I guess I was looking for something a bit more visual. BIAB interface always reminded me of how MS Excel looked on my Mac Plus in 1990.
I'll try the User categories again. I created one, but I forgot why I stopped using them.
One would be the ability to edit songs name/metadata/location/etc. in the picker. Unless I am missing something really huge, there is no way to rename or move/delete a song outside of moving the operation to the File Manager, find the often awkwardly named song in a folder, and do it there.
+1
Originally Posted by conticreative
I swear, I love BIAB like a child (I should, since I have had some version for as long as my daughter has been alive and she is 30+ now), but all the legacy stuff and the nested menus drive me insane sometimes.
I swear, I love BIAB like a child (I should, since I have had some version for as long as my daughter has been alive and she is 30+ now), but all the legacy stuff and the nested menus drive me insane sometimes.
+1000
Same.
It seems that so often stuff is just tacked on, rather than being designed in properly. The following addresses something that's been a "want" from many people for three(?) years now and seems to me to sum up well the issue. The "All tracks are equal" fix on the bar settings:
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It seems that so often stuff is just tacked on, rather than being designed in properly.
All Tracks Are Equal is likely never to actually eventuate when the two systems works completely differently.
QED.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
Well now, I've just watched the new boot camp video for the MultiPicker and that is definitely a big improvement on the older methods. They'll have done a lot of work getting that to be reasonably neat, to function sensibly, particularly with the non-modal aspect.
I'm not wholly sure when it does or does not put the chords into the track. Obviously when one sets it to do so, but on some dialogs there was no obvious such option. I guess it become clear with a few experiments, though. The new chord progression builder could be quite handy, too, though generally I'll know anyway where to go with that.
So ... after my grump about F5, a "well done PGM" for the MultiPicker.
I have yet to decide if/how to upgrade, so I'll continue to explore. At present there seem quite a few bugs, but I don't have to actually install an upgrade immediately.
Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful. Kawai MP6, Korg M50, Ui24R, Saffire Pro 40. AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11; Win8.1: Scarletts BIAB2022 UltraPAK, Reaper, a bunch of stuff.
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