{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593/events","html_url":"https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593","id":105263966,"number":1593,"title":"import formatting hard to parse mentally","user":{"login":"Profpatsch","id":3153638,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3153638?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch","html_url":"https://github.com/Profpatsch","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Profpatsch/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/labels/discussion","name":"discussion","color":"c7def8"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":18,"created_at":"2015-09-07T20:24:32Z","updated_at":"2015-10-15T16:30:27Z","closed_at":null,"body":"With the current formatting output, it’s extremely hard to find the crucial information. Current output might look like this (minus the colors):\r\n\r\n```\r\n4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (26.9%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)\r\n5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (25.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)\r\n# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,\r\nEnter search, enter Id, aBort? s\r\n/home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)\r\nFinding tags for album \"Austin Wintory - The Conformation\".\r\nCandidates:\r\n1. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (28.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)\r\n2. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (28.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)\r\n3. Austin Wintory - The River Why (27.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album) (2012)\r\n4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (19.1%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)\r\n5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (17.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)\r\n# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,\r\nEnter search, enter Id, aBort? \r\n```\r\n\r\nI deliberately cut one output in half and used a terminal with half a screen’s width.\r\nThe crucial information I need for a decision is:\r\n* What record is this about\r\n* What gets changed\r\n* What can I do\r\n\r\nEspecially the first point is hard at the moment.\r\n\r\n## A few points to break it down\r\n\r\n### new entry\r\n```\r\n# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,\r\nEnter search, enter Id, aBort? s\r\n/home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)\r\nFinding tags for album \"Austin Wintory - The Conformation\".\r\n```\r\n\r\nA newline would greatly increase readability.\r\n\r\n### paths\r\n\r\n     /home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)\r\n\r\nSince you invoke the import with `beets import <path>`, it would make sense to use relative paths to reduce clutter (and  overlong lines).\r\n\r\n### noise\r\n\r\nSome chars are mostly noise after the first time:\r\n\r\n```\r\nFinding tags for album\r\nCandidates:\r\nCorrecting tags from:\r\nTo:\r\nURL:\r\n```\r\n\r\n## Suggestion for reformatting\r\n\r\n```\r\n<previous entry>\r\n\r\n./Austin Wintory - Monaco- What's Yours Is Mine (17 items)\r\n    Austin Wintory - Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine\r\n->  Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine\r\n * What's Yours Is Mine          -> What’s Yours Is Mine\r\n * Prison life                   -> Prison Life\r\n * The Devil's Trick             -> The Devil’s Trick\r\n * Can't Resist (ft. Laura Vall) -> Can’t Resist (title)\r\nhttp://musicbrainz.org/release/8bae12ae-945d-4f8c-866c-0892e5f31e15\r\n(Similarity: 99.9%) (tracks) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)\r\n\r\n./Austin Wintory - Soul Fjord (8 items)\r\n    Austin Wintory - Soul Fjord\r\n    http://musicbrainz.org/release/a75abdad-57be-40bf-8464-ac5090225ff5\r\n(Similarity: 100.0%) (Digital Media, 2014, XW)\r\n\r\n./Austin Wintory - Spirit of the Cosmos (13 items)\r\n---\r\n1. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (33.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)\r\n2. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (33.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)\r\n3. Austin Wintory - The River Why (31.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album) (2012)\r\n4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (26.9%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)\r\n5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (25.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)\r\n---\r\n# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,\r\nEnter search, enter Id, aBort? s\r\n\r\n```\r\n\r\nI’m not entirely happy with the last one, the list should be clearly visible and the prompt is two lines.\r\nProbably even the word `Similarity` should be taken out, the color-coded percentage is self-explaining."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/comments/148446132","html_url":"https://github.com/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593#issuecomment-148446132","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/sampsyo/beets/issues/1593","id":148446132,"user":{"login":"sampsyo","id":188033,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/188033?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo","html_url":"https://github.com/sampsyo","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/sampsyo/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-15T16:30:27Z","updated_at":"2015-10-15T16:30:27Z","body":"> Is there a way to read the size of a terminal interface?\r\n\r\nYes! In fact, we already use this to decide when to break the track title difference display.\r\nhttps://github.com/sampsyo/beets/blob/master/beets/ui/__init__.py#L539\r\n\r\n> I removed the URL completely as well as the album tags at the beginning, because honestly I don't use them and they seemed like dead weight.\r\n\r\nWell, we need to be careful here. For example, the URL was added in response to specific user requests—you can search in the issues and commit history for the origin story. I would argue for, by default, keeping all the same information visible unless it's obviously useless; then, we can address separately the question of (optionally?) hiding some of it. (That would be your following point: this stuff should be configurable at a fine grain.)"}}