Idea: Consider option to merge albums

[fossfreedom]

this is more of a wish probably because I cant be be bothered to manually change stuff.

I've got several albums listed in the music library displayed as slightly different names. This has an annoying side effect in that the coverart plugin shows multiple icons - often with different covers.

In fact these came from the same song folder but probably are slight incorrectly tagged.

Now I could go to each individual track - right click and select properties and change the album name so that the tracks amalgamate correctly. Strictly I should go back and change the mp3 tag but I cant be bothered....

Here is an idea to consider - add a preferences option to turn on "drag and drop album re-tagging".

As the name suggests - drag one album over another, and after a confirmation, change the album name for each track to the dropped onto album.

Logical? Think it may be worthy of discussion.

[asermax]

Seems like a great feature to add, I have that problem too (althought I'm working on it using beets).

Another option to implement the merging could be to add multi selection to the cover view (that would imply extra work, since the info showed on te status bar would vary on that case) and add a 'merge albums' option when more than one album is selected.
Hell, we could implement both ways to make it even more flexible xD

Note: I like the idea of multi selection, I will open issue for that too xD

[asermax]

I think this one is kinda implemented already with the song properties window while selecting multiple albums; you just have to write the new album name (or reuse one).
We can keep it simple and leve it at that, what do you think?

[fossfreedom]

Hey - Nice spot - and wow - you make the change, the coverview self-updates. Nice - very nice :)