Confusing settings - preferred Release countries & formats. Is the left the preferred or the right?

MusicBrainz Picard
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I can’t tell if I’m supposed to move my preferred release countries & preferred formats to the right column if I do prefer them or move all other countries and formats to the right-hand column if I do not prefer them.

It would be nice if the columns were labelled “Preferred” and “Not Preferred” or something.

And, as obvious as it is, include a note on the sliders for release types to indicate moving the slider to the right increases its preference. Also, if it showed its current value because I cannot tell if some are set to 50% while others are at 49%… I think gui’s shouldn’t need to require a help manual but that’s just me.

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UI question about preferred release country and medium format
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You’re not the only one—in fact, there is a ticket about this:

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It’s just a click to the left, then a click to the right … Let’s do the Time Warp again!

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Seems this didn’t get answered, and I can’t stand ambiguity. So… :upside_down_face:

A little ASCII is all ya need.

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I also wish it maybe had sane defaults for the preferred release format. The only thing that makes sense is a preferred order from oldest to newest technology. If a shellac record was made in 1920, the most original source of truth is the shellac pressing- not it’s subsequent re release to vinyl, cassette, CD, laserdisc, pirated mp3.

Just make it go from old to new and scrap the preference