Modifying existing tracklists used to be considerably more troublesome than submitting new ones, but now we've added text block mode to the tracklist editing interface. This means you can paste in a preformatted tracklist to overwrite the current entry in one fell swoop. You can even paste just the track lengths and the fields will update accordingly. Or you can edit the tracklist directly as a block -- no more frantic tabbing ;D

Multiline textboxes are now dynamically resizable. Just drag the handle located at the bottom. Some multiple selection boxes (in particular platform selection) are also resizable.

I just tryed that.. It can have some utility but it's still too limited so it's just usefull if:

You need to copy paste a new tracklist over the old one, but must have the same number of tracks.

We are still not able to modify the number of tracks of an existing tracklist.
So the old (delete/new tracklist) is still needed.

How is anyone able to paste all the track times at once?
If you still need to copy/paste track after track, i don't see much difference with the old system.

Correct me if i am wrong.

With foobar you can set it such that tracks are copied in the following format (for example):

01. 3:15
02. 2:41

And so on, leaving the tracknames out. That way I pasted all the tracktimes from the 5 CDs for the Ragnarok Online Complete Soundtrack (which I just updated).

Of course that's a roundabout way of going about it, there probably will be a checkbox or dropdown option to copy over only track lengths, only track titles, or both.

This is just a taste of some of the new features we're adding in, others won't be possible until we make changes to the database structure. I can't create an entirely new tracklist system in one day, so bear with me for a while. I'm just solving one of the problems that's been bugging me for a long time.

Alright. Copy/Pasting track times at onces is a nice addition. (tested & approved!)

Your first explanation was too short maybe, i don't blame your work at all, any new feature is welcome, and this one will find it's use too.

Found a weird bug. If you have 2 tracklists with the same name, you get this:

http://vgmdb.net/album/13408

Good one, I've fixed it. The old SQL query failed to retrieve tracklists with the same title in the proper order, so they got mixed together.

How do you do this in foobar2000?

It can be done by using plugin "foo_texttools".

In fb2k 0.9.3.1 (the version I use) there's Preferences -> Display -> Title Formatting -> Copy Command. It seems they took that out in newer versions of foobar though.

It's moot though, since there's now a dropdown for you to specify whether you want to transfer only the track titles, track lengths or both.

Thanks, this works well with the latest version of foobar2k. A %length% field (or "%title% %length%" to use this new paste feature) had to be added in the options to list the duration of each track.

Tested on http://vgmdb.net/album/1372 , updated only track-length of almost 100 files at once, amazing feature, no more crap editing one by one.

Thanks for the info on foo_texttools. That makes things a lot easier.

Amazing stuff, works like a charm.

A minor bug, the text block appears in the 2nd disc of these cd+dvd albums even if there is no 2nd tracklist, like this one: http://vgmdb.net/album/13182. It doesn't affect anything though.
Also, could you make it so the text block when editting tracklists is automatically resized to the text?

I got your point Dag, check the picture below.



if the right box is not automatically resized, blank spaces will cover most of that area. That will likely be troublesome for editors as they will have to resize that box every time they edit an album.

If the right box is automatically resized to match the left box then will be infinite times better for editors to check if everything is or was right without having to scroll down or resize it manually. For example the picture above. I did it manually but it should have done it automatically.

+1 for that.

Turns out it was a really simple edit, since the variables were already in place.

Enjoy your dynamic textarea rows!

Amazing, just tested it and works great.

Thanks very much for such a great feature Gigablah.

Uh, I just edited the track list of http://vgmdb.net/album/17228 to add track lengths, specified only to add lengths for every singe disc, the format being "13. 2:34" etc. but instead adding those the first Japanes track name of each disc was remove. WTF.

I'm not sure what happened there. Is it possible that you could paste here a block of text that definitely causes the problem?

Which browser are you using, by the way?

The text wasn't anything special, here's the first disc
Browser is Firefox 2.0 (on a netbook, don't cry =P).

Looks like I broke it again. Is it too much to ask for a preview page before committing? I think I won't try to add times again if the system can't be bothered to detect the times instead deleting the first tracks title... =/

I don't understand this one. I just submitted the times that you pasted, and I had no problem. I'm using Firefox 3.x however.

If you click anywhere outside the textbox after pasting the information inside, the individual text fields to the left will be synced to the new info.

Anyway, IRA submitted some code to prevent copying empty titles, so let me know if that fixes your problem.

I'd suggest moving that syncing stuff server side as well as respecting the user selection (whether to take over both titles and lengths, the former or the latter) on the server side as well.

And, um, the syncing seemed to have worked now (at least I didn't see any titles being removed, that shouldn't be possible to do anyway) but after submitting I got the note that no edits were detected in my submission...

You need to edit the main tracklist to change track lengths (since the lengths are now automatically synced). I've added indicators to non-main tracklists and disabled the length fields there.

I see... How about just offering an own form just for lengths regardless of tracklists? That would have avoided all the issues I was having up to now.

Yeah, that's what I plan to do for the next version of the media/tracklist interface.

OK, thank you for everything. =)

How do I add more tracks to an existing tracklist?

http://vgmdb.net/album/29808

The listing only has 18 tracks, but the album has 19. Track 11 (It's Bad!) can't be listened to at the Bandcamp page, but when you download the album, it's included. The page also says "Immediate download of 19-track album..."

Yeah, sorry.

Edit: Oh wait, I can't friggin read. Duh.

For future reference Only Higher ranking members can add/remove tracklists, covers, link artists, etc.

So if you are stuck with a problem like Foxhack, if you can fix it by using the edit on the track list right side, then you can make a new track list and add the fixes, if there are too few CDs or something you can't fix due to permissions make a forum post in the proper thread of the album. Or I guess contact someone with that ability