Subject: Re: [Usher Talk] Ideas to Enhance Usher

From: Rob Griffiths <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 13:25:55 -0800

On Jan 4, 2011, at 3:07 AM, Juanjo wrote:

> - Let user import the tags already defined in the iTunes Library. For
> instance if we have a movie and we've placed the Studio in the iTunes

If this info can be found in the iTunes XML file, we should be able to import it. If iTunes doesn't keep it there, it probably won't be possible. We've added it to our list to investigate, though.

> - Following with the previous request, I know that there are some tags
> that are written in the movie itself (like "Artists", "Comments" or
> "Genre"). Could be possible to read those parameters as well (other
> programs like iVideo does this)?

I believe you're talking about ID3 tags, and we've got support for those planned in a future update.

> - The renaming options are very basic and could be extended. It could
> have options like Insert, Delete, find & replace or other similar
> options beside the included numbering.

Try clicking on Number Sequentially, and you'll see that's actually a pop-up menu with some other options :). I agree, this UI could be better; we'll see what we can do in a minor update.

regards,
-rob.

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From: Juanjo <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 03:07:28 -0800 (PST)

I am sure that many of us has moved from iTunes to Usher to have a
much netter control over our collection of videos, movies o clips.
iTunes works fine for music but do not have all the required
identification requirements for working with Movies or Videos. Tags
like Casting can be associated to Artists (even though this field has
limited length in iTunes) but there is no place for Director, Studio /
Production, Story-line (might be in Comments - too short- or in
Lyrics), Country, Language... So I tried Usher. The first version I
tried was very buggy. It freeze all the time and was not operative but
the last release is much more stable. Things that I miss in this
version that would like to see in future versions are:

- Let user import the tags already defined in the iTunes Library. For
instance if we have a movie and we've placed the Studio in the iTunes
Field "Groupings" or the Cast in the field "Artists", Usher could have
an option to read those tags and place them in their own database.

Thanks for your work and let me know what you think about those
requireemnts.

Juanjo