Translator Q&A

[Steven]

@boroda74, is this behavior with the field labels a problem?
I'm happy to leave it as is, or revert to the old behavior of using the specific translations

[boroda]

Steven, no, it's not the problem at all for russian because both translations are the same anyway. i've just noticed this "strange" thing and considered it to be a bug. but i'll be happy with any of the approaches.

[boroda]

i think the best solution would be to use user defined tag names everywhere, not only in tag editor, and to use .lng tag name translations only as defaults for user definitions.

one more thing that may be important for other translators: i'm following your way to lowercase all tag names in tag editor. but i suppose that this is not the common case for all translations. so it would be great to have some option in .lng file to choose either original or lowercased user defined tag names in tag editor.

[Steven]

I have difficulties understanding this one:
#Sys.ctl.B93499E5# link to the source picture

It shows up under 'downloaded album cover storage'.
So, after it was downloaded, the downloaded image is getting linked to the source picture?
What is the source picture?

i am not happy with the current wording and plan to change the header to:
default location for new pictures:

the new source picture option just means a new picture will be directly linked from whatever location it has been downloaded/saved to, as opposed to the other options where the picture is copied/ organised or embedded

[Sofocl]

It looks like another flaw, there are no translation lines;
List > Undo Changes

I need to add some translation entries but I will do so for v3.5

It seems these lines are not there yet?


"Playback: Play Album Now"
And for this too not yet translation entries?


And also there are no translation entries for "skin";

[hiccup]

i am not happy with the current wording and plan to change the header to:
default location for new pictures:

I agree that's better than 'downloaded', since the word 'downloaded' to me suggests some specific and manually triggered 'download to' action.
Perhaps 'retrieved images' would be better?
(I think it's also better than 'new pictures' since it indicates how these images originated. 'new' doesn't sound right to me.)

I also question the use of the word 'copy'.
To me It suggests a file is copied from one location to another.
That doesn't seem completely applicable here?
Or if it is, it's not a regular 'copy' action as I am used to how 'copy' is used in software.

These artwork settings always have been one part of MusicBee's settings I wasn't sure of that I understood them well.
I think these wordings are part of the problem with that.

[Steven]

i've changed it to:
default location for added pictures:

re: copy, it is correct. When adding a picture, the picture file is copied to the organised picture location if its not already there

[Steven]

List > Undo Changes

its already in the file as
#Main.menu.UnCh#   Undo Changes

"Playback: Play Album Now"
And for this too not yet translation entries?

its already in the new file
#Sys.msg.PlAlbNo#      Playback: Play Album Now

And also there are no translation entries for "skin";

I have added that to the next update of the translation file
#Sys.ctl.62065357#   skin:

[hiccup]

re: copy, it is correct. When adding a picture, the picture file is copied to the organised picture location if its not already there

E.g. it says: 'copy to folder.jpg'
To me that's not correct. Copy a file to a file?

I can understand the effort to keep things short, but perhaps that part of the settings panel needs a couple more words to explain things better.
And maybe some minor restructuring too.
If – lyrics storage – would be moved from Tags (1) to Tags (2) there would be space to do that.

[Sofocl]

List > Undo Changes

its already in the file as
#Main.menu.UnCh#   Undo Changes

The items in the Undo Changes submenu were meant;

It looks like another flaw, there are no translation lines;
List > Undo Changes

Only one line is present, the other few are missing.

! when clearing a playlist
!Main.menu.ReseLi#   Reset List

[karbock]

Field name 'Volume Adjustment' may be missing from the main file for translators.
It's visible in: Now Playing tab -> Set Displayed fields... -> Other Fields -> Volume Adjustment

What is the #...# code?

See exchange with hiccup on that topic here:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=36497.msg205412#msg205412

[hiccup]

@steven

The translation file has:
#Main.menu.MFtoF#     Move Files to Folder

But in MusicBee that now says 'sweep files to folder'.
'Sweep' is difficult/weird to translate literally.
Is it technically the same as 'move' in this situation?

[Steven]

The translation file has:
#Main.menu.MFtoF#     Move Files to Folder

But in MusicBee that now says 'sweep files to folder'.
'Sweep' is difficult/weird to translate literally.
Is it technically the same as 'move' in this situation?

yes

[karbock]

Field name 'Volume Adjustment' may be missing from the main file for translators.
It's visible in: Now Playing tab -> Set Displayed fields... -> Other Fields -> Volume Adjustment

What is the #...# code?

See exchange with hiccup on that topic here:
https://getmusicbee.com/forum/index.php?topic=36497.msg205412#msg205412

This is the code:
#Main.field.80#   Volume Adjustment

[hiccup]

This is the code:
#Main.field.80#   Volume Adjustment

A good find karbock.
Where did you find it? I haven't been able to find it in any of the original or localised translation files I have on my computer?
Or was it some educated guessing/trial and error?