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Comment by lloeki

1 day ago

> MusicBrainz Picard is wonderful, but has one of the most unintuitive "first contact" experiences I can remember.

Seconded, it's the best specialised UI I've seen in a while.

By "specialised" I mean it's entirely bespoke to a specific task and no other, with a small amount of dedicated jargon, like those industrial control panels full of buttons, toggles, and blinkenlights.

At first it's completely alien and appears to do weird stuff, possibly counterintuitive even (the mentioned "Scan" usage†, "what are clusters?", "why do I even need to cluster first?", "how do I save changes?")

But once you get the hang of it it's incredibly efficient with a ton of small niceties, like dragging a selection of entries from the left side will apply whatever candidates you have on the right side to the selection in order starting from the first.

† I use scanning only when album matching fails for whatever reason, it does sometimes unearth entries that wouldn't appear otherwise.

I gave up and use Lidarr since it's a really easy interface ...until the metadata is missing from the API database then it's a hair pulling experience to learn the quirks of the culture that runs either of those cd databases.