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Bug-files selected on a resorted BatchConverter "List" page passed back to BC wrong
I'm using the "list" screen within Batch Converter (DMCFileSelector.exe R13) to select files that have a blank "Album Artist" tag. I've reconfigured the "List" display to show the tags Album, Artist, Album Artist, Track, Title and others.
What I did:
1. Select a directory structure (3825 files)
2. Click "List" button
3. On the list display, click the Album Artist heading to sort the list by that field.
4. Use "Uncheck All" to de-select all files.
5. click the top entry to highlight it.
6. Scroll down to the last blank "album artist" entry, and shift-click it to select the whole range of blank "Album Artist" files.
7. Click a check box for one of the selected files to cause all the highlighted files to be checked for processing.
8. Click OK to return to the main Batch Converter interface.
9. On the main Batch Converter interface I expanded directories to see which files were selected. Instead of the somewhat randomly placed selections I expected, Only the top files in Batch Converter's default sort order (i.e. the directory hierarchy order) were selected. In an earlier attempt I had simply run the conversion with the ID Tag Update utility codec to map the contents of Artist into "Album Artist" only to discover that most of my selected blank Album Artist fields were still blank.
Am I attempting something that is not supported? Is there a work around?
What I did:
1. Select a directory structure (3825 files)
2. Click "List" button
3. On the list display, click the Album Artist heading to sort the list by that field.
4. Use "Uncheck All" to de-select all files.
5. click the top entry to highlight it.
6. Scroll down to the last blank "album artist" entry, and shift-click it to select the whole range of blank "Album Artist" files.
7. Click a check box for one of the selected files to cause all the highlighted files to be checked for processing.
8. Click OK to return to the main Batch Converter interface.
9. On the main Batch Converter interface I expanded directories to see which files were selected. Instead of the somewhat randomly placed selections I expected, Only the top files in Batch Converter's default sort order (i.e. the directory hierarchy order) were selected. In an earlier attempt I had simply run the conversion with the ID Tag Update utility codec to map the contents of Artist into "Album Artist" only to discover that most of my selected blank Album Artist fields were still blank.
Am I attempting something that is not supported? Is there a work around?
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