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Ability to choose whether to save to file or tag in context menu

Open PlaylistsTrance opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

My use case is I like to save synced lyrics to files, but unsynced lyrics to tags. Currently, whenever I want to do one or the other, I'd have to switch save method in Preferences. I would like to be able to just choose whether to save to file or tag with the right-click context menu, or maybe in the lyrics editor.

PlaylistsTrance avatar Mar 12 '24 21:03 PlaylistsTrance

Why you prefer files ?

Rexadev avatar Mar 13 '24 07:03 Rexadev

I don't think the Android music player I use supports embedded synced lyrics, so keeping them separate on PC makes it much simpler to manually 'synchronise' my audio collection on pc and my smartphone.

PlaylistsTrance avatar Mar 13 '24 14:03 PlaylistsTrance

There're various reasons to prefer tags or files and not all of them are one-size-fits-all.

I want to save to a tag if:

  1. I want to be sure the metadata won't be lost when renaming/moving the file.
  2. I don't want to worry about configuring matching of file names correctly.

I want to save to a file if:

  1. I need to keep every bit of the file intact for sharing purposes.
  2. I want to reuse the same lyrics for multiple files.
  3. I want to share the lyrics text file.

Sometimes I want a tag, sometimes a file, sometimes both.

Athari avatar Apr 28 '25 17:04 Athari