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SnowdogPostDecember 8, 2024, 14:02
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Is there a command to hide & show the panel on the right?

I'm not sure of the names of the various areas but I have what might be called the file browser on the left that can have the visibility toggled with "command-alt-s".

On the right, I have all the various boxes for entering metadata & sometimes (albeit infrequently) I'd like to be able to hide that too.

Just wondered if this were possible?

2MR2PostDecember 8, 2024, 19:41
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Do a Window>Detach Edit Panels then close the window.

To bring it back to the main window do a Window>Attach Edit Panels. The command is a toggle so you can assign a shortcut.

When the detached window is closed you can bring it back by clicking on the dock icon or by doing a Window>Show Main Window.

SnowdogPostDecember 9, 2024, 03:58
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Ooh, that's interesting, I like that. I might keep them as a floating window!

In case it's of interest, I made a quick screen capture of one such example of where it's handy for me to have more columns visible. (This is a very long explanation of a very tiny thing. Sorry.)

In the video, I have just over 45,000 library tracks loaded into Yate. They are poorly tagged, often having little more than a track number & an album title. (I suspect that whoever ripped these albums from vinyl plays their audio directly from a folder on their hard drive & doesn't need metadata.)

Anyway, in the video, you'll see that the file names are not numbered so they are displaying in alphabetical order.* (The tracks are tagged with numbers but they are all out of order.) The first thing I do is scroll over to see the album title, so that I know how many tracks to select.** (Which is the key thing I now don't have to do.) I then use a key command to flesh out the track numbers. I then copy the file names, without file extension, into the title. I then use the token based command I made very early on in my time with Yate to re-combine the track titles with the track numbers to arrive at numbered track titles.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zxmowbur7ukgdmssso9n5/Short_Clip.mov?rlkey=ectf0ynb62oee7m3az66ov3zx&st=6s5raj98&dl=0

*I appreciate that I could click the column headers to get the tracks to sort in the correct order but when I have a large selection of albums like this I find that naming all the albums' folders correctly & then sorting in Yate by "Path" is the best way to get everything arranged in basically the right order so I tend to leave the other column headers alone apart from for a couple of very specific purposes.

**Again, I could bring the columns over, nearer to the title but, as this is such a niche problem, I tend not to move columns around as I have them set how I like them for 99% of my tagging work.

With a lot of these albums, the file names include both the artist & track title. Since I don't need the artist in the track title, I also have to scooch over to see if the originator has added this info to the artist panel. If not, I have a couple of actions (which are tweaked versions of things you've written for me) that allow me to copy the track titles into the Artist field & then remove everything that isn't the artist.

As you can see from the attached screen shot, I can now see both the album title & the artist column without having to keep scrolling left & right, which simplifies things enormously.

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2MR2PostDecember 9, 2024, 10:58
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Glad it's working for you.

A few tips:

If you right click on any main window's column header, a context menu will appear. On the Sort menu there's a Sort by Folder item. This is the same as the default sort but is within a folder. ie. tracks in the same folder stay together.

On the same context menu there is a Saved Column Layouts submenu. On there you can create as many named column layouts as you wish. The named layouts even remember column widths. This makes it easy to switch to different layouts and restore your default.

SnowdogPostDecember 9, 2024, 14:34
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I nearly didn't write my long post but part of me thought... He's gonna read that & come back at me with some power-user tips!

Thanks!!

Gary-SwiftPostDecember 30, 2024, 08:43
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Do a Window>Detach Edit Panels then close the window.

My mind is blown! Ha, I did not know this was possible, thanks 😆

2MR2PostDecember 30, 2024, 08:47
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There's a few issues with it in v7.0. Popup sheets do not always appear where you'd expect and the detached window is not always being disabled when the main window has a sheet displayed. These are fixed in the upcoming v7.1. You should be okay with normal usage as it is now.

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