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Drag&Drop of track lists from web sites for CDPedia

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:01 am
by aramp
There are numberous CD's from niche labels that can not be found in large repositories (such as Amazon), but could be easily located on the publisher's site. Writing a plugin for each publisher could be hard.

Would be good if CDPedia would intelligently process the HTML drag&drop of the list from a web site. It is quite easy to downgrade any HTML back to a list of rows, sense if they all start with a number, and if so, then cut the number, and then fill in the tracks list with the resulting text. All of the minor glitches then could be fixed by hand, but that is a way much easier than keying in all the tracks manually, especially for the classical music, where names are long and are very frequently in languages you would dream to learn some day.

Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:06 am
by aramp
As a follow up to the original idea: the page could actually be loaded into Pedia and then manual mark-up procedure could be implemented for other fields as well. There sould be a small toolbar with field names. The user selects the field contents on the image and then clicks the field name on the toolbar.

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:44 am
by Conor
Thanks for the suggestions. It's a good idea, but a technically hard to implement feature, because there are so many variables. Especially when talking about HTML.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 3:42 am
by aramp
Agree, then for the first stage opening the page inside Pedia and providing some manual way of pasting text into fields would also be great.

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:28 am
by Conor
This can be done for the summary. If you select some text in the integrated info view and right click it, there is a "set as summary for selection" menu command. Users found it useful for this field but not others. So it's not implemented for the other fields as the contextual command would become heavy. (To browse a page inside a Pedia right click the info view and it has a "go to site" command.) Thanks for your feedback always helps when we are enhancing existing features and adding new features.