Hi -
I tried to editing the name of a pre-existing song to include a ‘/’ character and upon pressing save, got an error “there already exists a song named NAME”, where NAME is the name I tried to change the song to. (Note: I did double check that there was no other song named NAME). Further, once I closed that error dialog, the rename dialog also closed, discarding all the typing I’d done to edit the song name.
This is a recreateable issue for me, but it only happens when editing a song name via the edit button at the bottom of the song list page. If you try to use a / (or other special chars) in the song name edit box of the create song dialog, or in the rename song dialog launched via the pencil icon on the loop studio page, the keyboard rejects the use of special charcters, i.e. they never end up in the edit box.
Now software forbidding slashes or other special characters in strings that may end up as filenames is not uncommon, for obvious reasons, and the behavior I describe above makes it likely that / are illegal chars in a song name, i.e. the / is properly rejected unless you are editing song names from the song list page.
If all that’s right, and / can’t be supported, there might be two minor bugs here:
- The keyboard letting you enter a / when editing names from the song list page.
- If you do manage to get a / into the name, the error you get is misleading.
There’s also an enhancement opportunity:
- Losing everything you’ve typed when you okay an error in the song rename dialog.
For that last one, ideally the song name edit dialog would remain open - with all the chars a user has entered - after okaying an error. The user can always cancel the edit directly if they’d like, and typing names in is a bit onerous, so it’s a poor experience to have to do it twice (which with the misleading “song already exists error”, happened to me before I decided it was the slash causing the problem.
None of the above is a big deal, of course - I’m brand new to the aeros but quite satisfied so far.