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Libation: Liberate your Library
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Change "Locate audiobooks" #1013

Open rmcrackan opened 1 month ago

rmcrackan commented 1 month ago

This feature is confusing and it's usefulness is limited. Either

CLHatch commented 6 days ago

This feature is confusing and it's usefulness is limited. Either

  • move it to an 'advanced' section and include better instructions
  • remove it

It is a bit confusing... When I saw "Locate audiobook" I assumed it was to open File Explorer (in Windows, at least) to the location of the book files. But it appears to be to SET the location of the book files, in case you've moved the folder?

rmcrackan commented 5 days ago

@CLHatch yeah, basically. Or if you've re-installed Libation. You can point to a folder and Libation will do a deep dive looking for folders and audiofiles with the audible id.

CLHatch commented 5 days ago

@CLHatch yeah, basically. Or if you've re-installed Libation. You can point to a folder and Libation will do a deep dive looking for folders and audiofiles with the audible id.

The "audible id" part being the reason it's pretty much a requirement to have the audible id in the file or path, I'm guessing. Which luckily I would have added anyways,

rmcrackan commented 5 days ago

Right. Libation needs a way to determine which file/s go to which audible book entry. Without using the id, it's a messy affair. Of course, if you don't specifically need Libation to know that you have that file, then no id needed and there's no problem.

Returning to the orig intent of this enhancement -- this is a very specific feature which has been wildly misunderstood by users over the years who reasonably assume it's something more general. Which is to say: I've made it too confusing.

CLHatch commented 5 days ago

Right. Libation needs a way to determine which file/s go to which audible book entry. Without using the id, it's a messy affair. Of course, if you don't specifically need Libation to know that you have that file, then no id needed and there's no problem.

Returning to the orig intent of this enhancement -- this is a very specific feature which has been wildly misunderstood by users over the years who reasonably assume it's something more general. Which is to say: I've made it too confusing.

If you do keep the feature, I would suggest renaming it to more closely match what it does. Perhaps "Set location" or something like that?