Album Tag Importer

[user24 374]

4 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

v1.4

Selection fields adjusted

Headers renamed

Dropdown size adjusted

Selection field tooltips added for longer names/titles

This top section is now really practical for Album Artist selection. Just getting a few extra characters in the width means probably 99% of my Album Artists are now shown in full. The extra length will likely mean much less scrolling:

First impressions - I think the slightly darker colors work better on my screen. A bit less 'washed out' than previously. Especially the green. I think the purple will give me a headache!!! More than happy to revert back to the blue. I will adjust my brain accordingly. 

Did you add in a progress timer while I wasn't looking??? I was using a stopwatch yesterday to test something and then realized it was on the screen... So that was an interesting surprise!!!

 

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1 hour ago, user24 said:

First impressions - I think the slightly darker colors work better on my screen. A bit less 'washed out' than previously. Especially the green. I think the purple will give me a headache!!! More than happy to revert back to the blue. I will adjust my brain accordingly. 

I really liked purple. 

That said, here's green/blue accented version:

v1.5

Color accents reworked

emby_album_tag_importer.py

 

Edited Monday at 12:43 AM by GrimReaper

[user24 374]

V1.5

Thanks for changing the purple to blue!.The new black background and white text looks very slick. Another nice refinement that looks really promising.

I'll be seriously trying it out as soon as I get chance. In the meantime - here's a couple of screenshots:

[GrimReaper 4933]

Looking good. 

v1.6

GUI reworked (reminds you of something?)

Color accents reworked

emby_album_tag_importer.py

 

Edited Tuesday at 05:44 AM by GrimReaper

[GrimReaper 4933]

v1.7 

Logic refined

Color accents refined

emby_album_tag_importer.py

 

Edited Tuesday at 02:49 PM by GrimReaper

[user24 374]

18 hours ago, GrimReaper said:

GUI reworked (reminds you of something?)

Looking good! Not sure exactly what you are thinking - but some of it reminds me of the Emby settings pages with dark theme applied.

Overall, I think the readability is improving with each iteration. 

The drop down menu lists, with many items, are a lot better with the extra spacing and the white text.

Wondering though (and you would have to try it, because I haven't). With all the text in white and bold now (700 font weight instead of 600?) is it 'too much' all at once. What if the drop down menus and other secondary text was reverted back to 600, or perhaps 650, if that is possible?

Maybe the red sections below could be toned down??? Perhaps keep the main buttons in bold, as they are, which gives a level heirarchy. 

Again, I'm just imagining and you can likely better assess the whole GUI and probably make quick changes. I would just break the code!

Edited Tuesday at 11:57 PM by user24

[GrimReaper 4933]

2 hours ago, user24 said:

Wondering though (and you would have to try it, because I haven't). With all the text in white and bold now (700 font weight instead of 600?) is it 'too much' all at once. What if the drop down menus and other secondary text was reverted back to 600, or perhaps 650, if that is possible?

Maybe the red sections below could be toned down??? Perhaps keep the main buttons in bold, as they are, which gives a level heirarchy. 

Try demi-bold one:

v1.8

GUI refined

emby_album_tag_importer.py

[user24 374]

13 minutes ago, GrimReaper said:

Try demi-bold one:

Yeah - that's it. Happy to run with this for a while and do some more tagging and importing... thank you!

Edited Wednesday at 02:16 AM by user24

[GrimReaper 4933]

v1.9

Minor GUI/Logic improvements

emby_album_tag_importer.py

(P.S. Check the titlebar) 

Edited Wednesday at 06:41 AM by GrimReaper

[user24 374]

On 4/11/2026 at 10:10 AM, user24 said:

I’m also just started experimenting with some new Decade headings to match with the Release Type headings.

On one of the recent Emby beta releases earlier this year, there were optional sub-headings for the new home screen sections. This has since been removed, but I thought I'd try a similar idea for the custom Group By views. This possibly simplifies the Release Type mappings, on import, and also provides a way to show more info without it being the (large-bold-font) main heading:

As a proof-of-concept, it seems to be quite useful. Any changes to the Release Type sub-headings and the Decade headings/sub-headings do not require any changes to the Album Tags, so can be updated independently and relatively easy.