Change rating for more than one track at once in library view

[mixxxbot]

Reported by: marcel-vd-berg
Date: 2022-01-30T11:18:36Z
Status: Confirmed
Importance: Wishlist
Launchpad Issue: lp1959510
Tags: gui, library, metadata, usability

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I mentioned this bug/wish earlier in 2016 ( https://mixxx.discourse.group/t/rating-more-than-one-track-at-once/15367 ).
Mixxx developer Daschuer suggested to fill a bug to make sure it is noticed by the Mixxx team.

I think the library rating system for Mixxx 2.3.1 Linux x86_64 is buggy and lacks functionality.
This is not about rating songs/tracks in the mp3 tag, but storing it in the database along with BPM and key.

I imported 5 iTunes playlists with corresponding star rating. Switching to these playlist give me the opportunity to mass rate the tracks.
Unfortunately the rating can only be done by single track one by one!
And while rating them one by one, often the selected rating jumps back to zero rating!

It would be great to add a library menu item "Rating" to the current list "Adjust BPM", "Select Color", "Metadata" and "Reset" in the context menu of the library (Remarkable to see the option to mass reset the rating).

I hope some developer will pickup this request to improve the rating system in Mixxx.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2022-02-05T14:21:55Z

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"often the selected rating jumps back to zero rating"

Does this happen in all views or only in the iTunes playlists?
Please describe how you change the rating and when it gets reset.

[mixxxbot]

Commented by: marcel-vd-berg
Date: 2022-02-05T15:03:00Z

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It happens in all views!

In the main Tracks view it is approximately 10% that jumps back to zero stars as soon I move my mouse to the next row.

Imagine a view with thousands of unrated tracks where I move my mouse towards every unrated track and click, say 3 stars, row by row.

[ronso0]

Adding the rating widget to the track menu seems to be the most accessible and fastes solution. I may take a look at it after the 2.4 release.

However, the multi-track feature is being worked on in #12548, so that can be made available the fastest since most of the work has been done already.

Personally I would appreciate a simpler way, too, though that is quite hard to implement and is not ideal UX-wise IMO:

• mark several tracks
• hover the rating of any of those
• = all selected ratings follow the cursor
• = click to confirm applies the rating to all selected tracks

So since marking multiple track requires some keypresses anyway (Shift and maybe Ctrl for 'extended selection' i.e. non-continuous selection range), it is easy (with #12548) to press Ctrl+Return, change the rating, press Apply (Alt+A) or Okay (Alt+O), done.

We could also add the controls stars_up/_down (as they do exists for decks) to the library group and make these affect all selected tracks. Then they canbe mapped to any hotkey, eg.g Ctrl++ or Alt++

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The visual reset bug has been fixed recently in 2.4 by #12582

[ronso0]

Rating is added to the track menu in #12700