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[Krename-users] Some issues with KRename

[Scott G. <rsg...@gm...>]

First of all, let me say that I really appreciate KRename. I use it pretty 
much constantly, and it's a very, very good program that fills a much-needed 
niche is Linuxland.

That said, I'm concerned about a few changes in 3.0.3, to which I recently 
upgraded (I'm on Debian Sarge & KDE 3.3.2). 

I use KR mainly to rename OGG & MP3 files. I'll rip a bunch, & then use KR to 
change the file names. Some of the recent changes make that process far more 
onerous - & dangerous - than it used to be. Here are my concerns.

1. This is an old bug that I've always noticed: I add a directory of music, 
rename the files, remove those files from the list, add another directory, 
rename, remove. I leave KR open, and go to Konq to move the 2 dir's. 
Immediately after I do so, KR crashes. This happens every time.

2. A UI problem: I often open up 25 files named (& I'm simplifying here) 
something like this:

01-Song.ogg
02-Song.ogg

I want the files to look like this:

Artist - Album - 01 - Song.ogg

To do this, I open all 25 files in KR, click on Insert Part of Filename, 
highlight the "01-" and check the box next to Invert Selection, and then 
press Finish. My files are now named Song.ogg, but that's OK, because I 
immediately choose to rename the same files again by pressing Rename 
Processed Files Again, and this time I change the KR Template to:

Artist - Album - ## - *

Press Finish, and KR renames the files correctly. Since KR kept the songs in 
the correct order, the renumbering works perfectly. Excellent!

With the new KR, the Rename Processed Files Again is not a separate button, as 
it formerly was, but a part of a dropdown list labeled Rename More. The big 
problem is that Rename Processed Files Again is right next to Restart 
KRename, & I think that is a big mistake. I can just see myself accidentally 
clicking on Restart KRename, & losing the order of the files, meaning I'd 
have to manually renumber everything, which would suck. In other words, the 
new UI makes it far easier for a user to screw up. :)

My request is to somehow separate those. IMHO, Restart KRename should be a 
completely separate button from Rename More. This would certainly help.

3. My big annoyance - I can't save common Find & Replace tasks any longer! In 
the old KR, I could keep F&R tasks that I did over and over again, but now I 
can't. Please bring that back! Now I have to manually re-enter things, and 
that's no fun.

As I said, I really appreciate KRename. I just want to help out a great 
program.

Thanks.

Scott
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Re: [Krename-users] Some issues with KRename

[Dominik S. <dom...@we...>]

Hi Scott,

Great that you like KRename.

Am Thursday, 10. March 2005 16:40 schrieb Scott Granneman:
> First of all, let me say that I really appreciate KRename. I use it pretty
> much constantly, and it's a very, very good program that fills a
> much-needed niche is Linuxland.
>
> That said, I'm concerned about a few changes in 3.0.3, to which I recently
> upgraded (I'm on Debian Sarge & KDE 3.3.2).
>
> I use KR mainly to rename OGG & MP3 files. I'll rip a bunch, & then use KR
> to change the file names. Some of the recent changes make that process far
> more onerous - & dangerous - than it used to be. Here are my concerns.
>
> 1. This is an old bug that I've always noticed: I add a directory of music,
> rename the files, remove those files from the list, add another directory,
> rename, remove. I leave KR open, and go to Konq to move the 2 dir's.
> Immediately after I do so, KR crashes. This happens every time.
Wow, interessting bug. I'll see what I can do. Thanks for reporting.

> 2. A UI problem: I often open up 25 files named (& I'm simplifying here)
> something like this:
>
> 01-Song.ogg
> 02-Song.ogg
>
> I want the files to look like this:
>
> Artist - Album - 01 - Song.ogg
>
> To do this, I open all 25 files in KR, click on Insert Part of Filename,
> highlight the "01-" and check the box next to Invert Selection, and then
> press Finish. My files are now named Song.ogg, but that's OK, because I
> immediately choose to rename the same files again by pressing Rename
> Processed Files Again, and this time I change the KR Template to:
>
> Artist - Album - ## - *
>
> Press Finish, and KR renames the files correctly. Since KR kept the songs
> in the correct order, the renumbering works perfectly. Excellent!
>
> With the new KR, the Rename Processed Files Again is not a separate button,
> as it formerly was, but a part of a dropdown list labeled Rename More. The
> big problem is that Rename Processed Files Again is right next to Restart
> KRename, & I think that is a big mistake. I can just see myself
> accidentally clicking on Restart KRename, & losing the order of the files,
> meaning I'd have to manually renumber everything, which would suck. In
> other words, the new UI makes it far easier for a user to screw up. :)
>
> My request is to somehow separate those. IMHO, Restart KRename should be a
> completely separate button from Rename More. This would certainly help.
Thanks for bringing this problematic to my mind. 
First of all, I think you can avoid the problem at all by using a template 
like this:
"Artist - Album - ## - [*3-]"

Using this (or a similar template) it should be possible to rename all files 
at once. Nontheless, the problem that one could accidently hit Restart 
KRename is still there. I added as quick first solution a separator to the 
menu to make the restart item visiually separated from the rename more items. 
But a separate button might indeed be a better idea. I am still thinking what 
I will do exactly.

> 3. My big annoyance - I can't save common Find & Replace tasks any longer!
> In the old KR, I could keep F&R tasks that I did over and over again, but
> now I can't. Please bring that back! Now I have to manually re-enter
> things, and that's no fun.
You can save Find & Replace tasks using the new profiles in the extras menu. I 
hope this will work for you, too and provide even more features than the old 
way.

CU Dom
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Re: [Krename-users] Some issues with KRename

[Scott G. <rsg...@gm...>]

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:58:54 +0100, Dominik Seichter <dom...@we...> wrote:

Thanks for writing back, Dominik.

> First of all, I think you can avoid the problem at all by using a template
> like this:
> "Artist - Album - ## - [*3-]"

That will work sometimes, but not always, since my songs are sometimes
named differently when I get them. :(

But thanks for the suggestion.

> Using this (or a similar template) it should be possible to rename all files
> at once. Nontheless, the problem that one could accidently hit Restart
> KRename is still there. I added as quick first solution a separator to the
> menu to make the restart item visiually separated from the rename more items.
> But a separate button might indeed be a better idea. I am still thinking what
> I will do exactly.

Cool. Thanks for thinking about this.

> > 3. My big annoyance - I can't save common Find & Replace tasks any longer!
> > In the old KR, I could keep F&R tasks that I did over and over again, but
> > now I can't. Please bring that back! Now I have to manually re-enter
> > things, and that's no fun.
> You can save Find & Replace tasks using the new profiles in the extras menu. I
> hope this will work for you, too and provide even more features than the old
> way.

I apologize for being dim, but I can't get Profiles to work, & I can't
find any documentation online. I create a new profile, make the
settings I want in the Find & Replace dialog, run Krename, & then when
I go to another batch of songs, none of the F&R changes I made load.
If I go back to Profiles & try to load the one I created, none of the
F&R changes still load. I'm obviously doing something wrong. Any help
would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Scott

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