Add "Remove" and "Move" functionality

[Xeno-Idaltu]

What's missing?

PuddleTag 2.2.0

We are lacking two important and helpful actions.

1. Option to remove files we don't want. Currently, the only option is to delete them.

2. Option to move files to another directory using right click on files we would like to move.

Your solution

Solution is to bring these two options as they are very helpful.

Any alternatives?

This functionality is on Mp3Tag

Anything else?

No response

[corubba]

Please clarify what exactly you mean by "removing" and "deleting" a file, as those words mean a lot of different things to different people. Guessing from your phrasing "remove" means only unloading it from puddletag and not touching/changing the file in the filesystem, while "deleting" means removing it from the filesystem (or moving it to the trashcan)?

I am rather against including file operations like move, because that's what file managers are for and best at. I would be happy to get rid of the whole delete/trashcan function too and only keep renaming, because that's the only one where you actually need tag data; the rest is pure file management. The tree view even has a right-lick "Open in File Manager" function to make this very easy.

[sandrotosi]

I am rather against including file operations like move, because that's what file managers are for and best at. I would be happy to get rid of the whole delete/trashcan function too and only keep renaming, because that's the only one where you actually need tag data; the rest is pure file management. The tree view even has a right-lick "Open in File Manager" function to make this very easy.

while i agree on this point, sometimes you need the information from puddletag (f.e. bitrate/length etc) to make a decision on "do i keep this file or the other one?", and given the number of feedback we got on the delete/move to trash difference, i feel this is a feature a lot of users are actually using, so removing it may remove something useful.

There's a PR out there for the move-to-trash, im gonna look at it soon.

The other clarification is still required from @Xeno-Idaltu

[Xeno-Idaltu]

Yes, having the "unload files" would be very handy for big storage. I tend to open whole directories and as I move along I need to unclog my view by "unloading" files by tag.

I think the "delete" option should stay but as an option for the "right click menu" as I have accidentally deleted files when trying to open it's properties.

I currently use KDE's Dolphin Manager and its hard to move files by tags. Dolphin's columns currently only shows 7 possible options for tags: Artists, Album, Genre, Duration, etc. The side effect is that it is very slow. Tagging/moving is more suitable for one directory at a time. We can move multiple files from different directories but by file name.

In my case I want to move all files tagged type="intrumental" into one major directory and from there create subdirectories based on mood like "uplifting", "gloomy", etc. If were to open my whole database using PuddleTag, this is where the function of "unload" comes handy as files containing the tag-TYPE="instrumental" are all over the places in different subdirectories.
Once I filter the system, I would just unload files without having to delete them. I would then highlight files containing tag-MOOD="uplifting", right click on them and move all those files to /mymusicfiles/instrumental/uplifting

The options to "move" and "unload" functions are present in Mp3Tag. However when using Mp3Tag via Wine, it wouldn't move my highlighted files to a directory of my choosing. I'm not familiar with Mp3Tag that much so I'm not sure if there's something wrong because of Wine.

[audiomuze]

You can already move files as long as it’s on the same physical device - just put the file path and folder name you want in the toolbar, select all the files you want to move and hit R