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Bugs Report + Repro
Great software! I've just started using dbPoweramp and all works well except for the issues hit below. My cd collection is huge and dbPoweramp is the closest I've found yet to meeting all of my needs. If the issues listed below could be resolved, I will be registering.
Thanks for your attention!
Alex
(Fellow software developer)
Software: dBpoweramp CD Ripper R13.3
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Bug 1:
1. Allow a CD with more tracks than will fit on screen to auto populate metadata using PerfectMetadata
2. Open review metadata matches (Alt+M)
3. Make sure View Track-Artists is checked
4. Blank out the Composer field for the CD
5. Click "To All"
Expected: All tracks have composer field blanked
Actual: Only tracks that are currently viewable are blanked; if you scroll down to the tracks that are off screen, the rest of the tracks still have their original Composer field filled in and are not blanked.
Bug 2 / observation / major annoyance
I'm a major contributor to MusicBrainz, and if an update is made to MusicBrainz, it seems like there is no way to get dbPoweramp to download the latest data. Not sure if this is due to caching, however most of the MusicBrainz that I've observed in dbPoweramp is very out of date. This is a big pain because if I update the data in MusicBrainz, it has to be manually re-entered into dbPoweramp before ripping.
Bug 3 / observation / major annoyance
dbPoweramp seems to try to overly outsmart the user at times when dealing with track and artist naming style. For example,
1. Artists like "The Crystal Method" get reformatted to "Crystal Method, the" instead of "Crystal Method, The". It would me nice to be able to control the capitalization. MusicBrainz explicitly has its style conventions specifying an uppercase "The".
2. Feat/Featuring credits are auto reformatted so they are tacked onto the Artist rather than the track. This is again in contrast to the MusicBrainz conventions which dictate featuring credits be part of the track name.
Thanks for your attention!
Alex
(Fellow software developer)
Software: dBpoweramp CD Ripper R13.3
OS: Windows 7 64bit
Bug 1:
1. Allow a CD with more tracks than will fit on screen to auto populate metadata using PerfectMetadata
2. Open review metadata matches (Alt+M)
3. Make sure View Track-Artists is checked
4. Blank out the Composer field for the CD
5. Click "To All"
Expected: All tracks have composer field blanked
Actual: Only tracks that are currently viewable are blanked; if you scroll down to the tracks that are off screen, the rest of the tracks still have their original Composer field filled in and are not blanked.
Bug 2 / observation / major annoyance
I'm a major contributor to MusicBrainz, and if an update is made to MusicBrainz, it seems like there is no way to get dbPoweramp to download the latest data. Not sure if this is due to caching, however most of the MusicBrainz that I've observed in dbPoweramp is very out of date. This is a big pain because if I update the data in MusicBrainz, it has to be manually re-entered into dbPoweramp before ripping.
Bug 3 / observation / major annoyance
dbPoweramp seems to try to overly outsmart the user at times when dealing with track and artist naming style. For example,
1. Artists like "The Crystal Method" get reformatted to "Crystal Method, the" instead of "Crystal Method, The". It would me nice to be able to control the capitalization. MusicBrainz explicitly has its style conventions specifying an uppercase "The".
2. Feat/Featuring credits are auto reformatted so they are tacked onto the Artist rather than the track. This is again in contrast to the MusicBrainz conventions which dictate featuring credits be part of the track name.
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