Hi!

Here the author of Mussorgsky. Thanks for the interest and the list of improvements suggested in this thread! I am very glad to read your feedback and i am open to improve the application (or receive patches!).

Few explanations about the comments above:

1. "I also suggest that there is an option to edit more than just the Artist name, Album name and track name. How about artist album and other basic song information."

I added only the options that are useful in the default media player. Simplicity was always the goal of mussorgsky, so i avoid to fill the screen with combos and text fields.

Maybe Genre could be added, and song number (to get better sorting). "Artist album" is useless in the media player, and besides, there are also the tracker 0.6 limitations.

2. "better search function" [I guess you mean _inside_ the program] I did the search before it was available in the toolkit, and i implemented it only for one view (album-art). Implement it for the other view and/or use the toolkit-provided search is definitely something to do

3. How to show the songs: I couldn't come up with anything better than a list. The main point was to show/find the broken songs... The hierarchical approach (if i understood correctly your proposal) doesn't work on that case.

4. Edit the artwork with the metadata: it was like that in the 0.1 version (clicking in the image on the right of the edition screen) and i removed that because it could be confusing. It looks like you can choose a cover-art PER SONG, when it is only allowed PER ALBUM. I can put it back, no problem.

5. The search engine for cover art is BING. When i tried it was giving the best results, comparing with last.fm and google images (amazon service looks deprecated!?!).

We can a. change to a different engine (if it works better) b. offer the option in the UI. Again, simplicity here makes me prefer to choose one and go with it. An option is a potential bug

6. Not closing the "automatic download" dialog at the end is definitely a bug. Sorry about that.

7. "unintuitive UI". WOW! that hurts! I tried to keep it short and simple. Suggestions about the design and flow inside the app are very welcome. I cannot do better.

8. "Editing metadata seldom works": that was fixed some time ago and it should work. I use it every now and then without any problem. Start mussorgsky in a terminal, and open a bug /send me an email with the output there when it fails.

AND! finally my own ideas:

A. Nobody mentioned the lack of a "delete" button! If you run into a song you don't want, you need to find it again in the MP and remove it.

B. The "play" button is useful at all? Change it to "pause" when the music is playing is probably another detail to fix, but i guess nobody is really using it (which means nobody was editing songs copied from an ipod )

C. To choose an image from the filesystem as album-art is the greatest hit in my requests list.

I'll be pretty busy in the next month, but after that probably i'll do a new round of changes in Mussorgsky. Feel free to dig in the code, play with it, and send patches if you feel brave.