Bugzilla – Bug 9068
Location in Song Info could open local source folder
Last modified: 2012-03-09 06:42:29 UTC
When I find songs with incorrect tags, I open the folder and fire up my tag editor from that folder to correct the tags. I used to grab the folder text from the song info screen, but with the recent changes to the song info screen, it's now become a hyperlink to download the file, which makes it quite fiddly to copy the path text from the screen. It would be nice if the path text could be a hyperlink to open the source folder in a new window. i.e. to open in Windows Explorer on a pc. Otherwise, make the file path part standard text, so it can be easily highlighted and copied. The filename could remain as a download link, otherwise put a download link after the song name, or an action on the song info page.
That's a great idea I would love to see. But it just won't work in many circumstances. The path displayed is not available on my machine: my SC is running on a Linux box somewhere in my flat, while I'm sitting at my laptop under the sun. My Windows laptop doesn't have a clue about /home/music/some/path. And my SC machine doesn't know about a share to which my client could connect. If we're going to try some magic, displaying the link anyway, we'll get tons of bug reports about the feature failing. But then this might be a good idea for a 3rd party plugin which does nothing else than apply this magic and provoide a trackinfo item. This very likely "wontfix".
I thought that may be the case with trying to open the folder (also wouldn't work if accessing the website remotely, although the website could detect when accessing locally). Could the folder path at least be available somewhere such that it is easy to highlight and copy. eg. Make the location text-only, and add a download symbol/link after the location text, or add a "copy folder path" icon that when clicked would copy the folder path onto the clipboard?
What's the problem with the current display? I see the full path, can copy/paste it as I like.
The problem is the whole line item is a clickable link, from "Location: " to the actual file name. The only way I can grab the path, is to start dragging from past the end of the file name back to the start of the path, and then I have to paste that somewhere so I can then delete the filename from the text.