Ideas for Power Tab Librarian v1.0
Ideas for Power Tab Librarian v1.0
These are some of the ideas I have in my todo list for PT Librarian 1.0. Free free to add your own by using the comments feature:
- Add delete functionality to the summary lists (delete all of an artists songs, etc.)
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- A search/replace/clean-up tool that uses regular expression syntax for batch updating data, or replacing whitespace, surrounding quotes, etc.
- Replace AutoComplete in edit dialog box with an inline lookup that searches for artists/albums/etc. already in the database, ala iTunes
- Smart editing: if you've entered the name of an artist, the album field will automatically present a list of albums by that artist. Entering an album automatically fills in the year if the album already exists in the library, etc.
- Add a favorites feature to mark a song or lesson as a favorite
- Add code to temporarily remove read-only attribute from a file so updates can occur without error; restore read-only after update is finished
- Add a small button on the right side of the artist and album fields for selecting that artist or album in the summary lists
- Use Win32 to monitor folder any changes that occur from outside the program while the program is running. When a notification is received, it will auto-sync the library (or ask the user to sync)
- Add a programs option which allows user to set which program to use to actually open the .ptb files (as opposed to using the default Windows association)
- Speed up the sync process; file I/O big bottleneck, if caching doesn't apply
- Add estimated time left to the backup feature
- Add a Copy To Folder/Zip To Folder feature to the shortcut menu; backup an artist quickly, or backup the selected items quickly.
- Use a yellow information bar, ala IE/Firefox, to remind users to check for updates as opposed to the reminder dialog box - less intrusive
- Add Print to shortcut menu
- Add an Online service for retrieving song information (ala CDDB) from the Web
These are some of the ideas I have in my todo list for PT Librarian 1.0. Free free to add your own by using the comments feature:
- Add delete functionality to the summary lists (delete all of an artists songs, etc.)
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- A search/replace/clean-up tool that uses regular expression syntax for batch updating data, or replacing whitespace, surrounding quotes, etc.
- Replace AutoComplete in edit dialog box with an inline lookup that searches for artists/albums/etc. already in the database, ala iTunes
- Smart editing: if you've entered the name of an artist, the album field will automatically present a list of albums by that artist. Entering an album automatically fills in the year if the album already exists in the library, etc.
- Add a favorites feature to mark a song or lesson as a favorite
- Add code to temporarily remove read-only attribute from a file so updates can occur without error; restore read-only after update is finished
- Add a small button on the right side of the artist and album fields for selecting that artist or album in the summary lists
- Use Win32 to monitor folder any changes that occur from outside the program while the program is running. When a notification is received, it will auto-sync the library (or ask the user to sync)
- Add a programs option which allows user to set which program to use to actually open the .ptb files (as opposed to using the default Windows association)
- Speed up the sync process; file I/O big bottleneck, if caching doesn't apply
- Add estimated time left to the backup feature
- Add a Copy To Folder/Zip To Folder feature to the shortcut menu; backup an artist quickly, or backup the selected items quickly.
- Use a yellow information bar, ala IE/Firefox, to remind users to check for updates as opposed to the reminder dialog box - less intrusive
- Add Print to shortcut menu
- Add an Online service for retrieving song information (ala CDDB) from the Web
posted by Power Tab at Saturday, March 25, 2006
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