It's there 🙂

In Preferences Artists and Preferences Composers enable Auto accumulate. Whenever you add an artist or composer, they will be added to the list. As the list gets populated the better the autocompletion will be.

Alternately you can pre-fill your lists with the 'Fill Lists' action function. Write a simple one line action with a 'Fill Lists' function and run your entire collection through it via the Batch Processor Wizard'. When the batch completes your lists will have been filled with all of the items you selected in the action function. You can manually edit the lists at any time in Preferences.

Personally I do not auto accumulate by lists. I ran a batch Fill Lists once and as part of my workflow when I add a new album I run Fill Lists on the new album.

Hmm. I use Apple standard type completion which returns the next potential match based on what you've typed so far. I guess you're talking about a popup menu which changes on the fly. I can look at that for the future. If your "Symphonies" genres are added to the list they will appear as you type.

The current auto fill in Genres, Artist and Composer fields works with accumulated or pre-filled lists. If the lists contain data (ie. the drop down to the right of the field displays a menu), the autocomplete will work. Genre is working for you because Yate comes pre-populated with Genres. Yate does not pre-populate Artists or Composers. You have to populate the lists either by auto-accumulating (enabled in preferences), by pre-filling or by manually editing the lists in preferences which is too cumbersome to consider.

Quote from 2MR2 on March 9, 2014, 16:49
Hmm. I use Apple standard type completion which returns the next potential match based on what you've typed so far. I guess you're talking about a popup menu which changes on the fly. I can look at that for the future. If your "Symphonies" genres are added to the list they will appear as you type.

The current auto fill in Genres, Artist and Composer fields works with accumulated or pre-filled lists. If the lists contain data (ie. the drop down to the right of the field displays a menu), the autocomplete will work. Genre is working for you because Yate comes pre-populated with Genres. Yate does not pre-populate Artists or Composers. You have to populate the lists either by auto-accumulating (enabled in preferences), by pre-filling or by manually editing the lists in preferences which is too cumbersome to consider.

Hi

As I am converting hundreds of SACD ISO to DSF, I am in a quite heavy tagging process.

My Artists and Composers are already populated with many names. And "Autocompletion" while editing does not work, even in the "last entered name" mode that works in Genres.

Do not consider this as a critic! And you know that I have already written a good review of Yates (Except if my mails to Barry went to spam…)
http://www.audiophile-magazine.com/actualités#2manyrobots

My "wish" would be that after entering for example 3 letters, the list pops up with the corresponding names having these 3 consecutive letters in their content.

Kind regards
Thierry

Fixed in the upcoming v2.7. Autocompletion now works in Artists and Composers as in Genres. The issue was in the natural sort code which was reaching too far. The autocompletion now works as in iTunes. So, while 'The Rolling Stones' will be sorted under 'R', you have to type 'The Rol....' in order for type completion to work.

Version 2064 downloaded and tested. All is OK.