GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 313479
Replace the word "song" -> "track"
Last modified: 2018-05-24 10:45:47 UTC
Although most contemporary popular music does in fact have a singer, lots of jazz and classical music is purely instrumental. Hence, it just feels wrong that "song" is used all over the UI, e.g. "Choose random song" or "Loading songs" when I don't have any songs in my collection. Like if the terminal was called a file manager (main menu -> system utilities -> file manager, *wham* you get a terminal). Or Epiphany called "Connect to the Internet". Or if Nautilus referred to files as documents ("16 documents, free space: 801 MB"). I realize pointing this out makes me a nitpicker, but it really is an annoying distraction. Would it be possible to change the wording to something a bit more general? In Danish, a piece of music is called a "musiknummer" or just "nummer" which my dictionary translates to "track". How about that? Or perhaps just "piece" or "piece of music" when space is plentiful?
Hm, I can see in the .po file that track is already used for the position on the cd. Another possibility is "work". But maybe that isn't used for pop music.
+1 for "track". "song" is definitely the wrong word, especially for music that is instrumental, jazz or classical.
This should probably be discussed on the mailing list. I'll post a link back to this bug.
I'm in favor to use track too; by the way the word "song" was already replaced by "track" in the new Rhythmbox documentation.
Doc (James Livingston) indicates that he's willing if nobody objects: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/msg00184.html Thread here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/rhythmbox-devel/2006-February/thread.html#00171 Confirming as bug.
(In reply to comment #5) > Doc (James Livingston) indicates that he's willing if nobody objects: willing to change to "track", that is.
Evidence of the fact that I'm not the only one who dislikes "song" and why "track" is more appropriate: http://lurgy.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/a-better-music-player-for-gnome-12/
Created attachment 84558 [details] [review] patch I'd forgotten about this. This patch changes all the translatable strings with 'song' or 'songs' in them to use 'track(s)' instead.
(In reply to comment #8) > I'd forgotten about this. This patch changes all the translatable strings with > 'song' or 'songs' in them to use 'track(s)' instead. Works for me. The Jamendo and Magnatune plugins need to also be updated, however. Also "Jump to Playing Song" should be changed to "Jump to Playing Track" for consistency.
I wonder if we should try to make this conditional on either the type of source or rhythmdb-entry-type. So, for example, when a possible Audio Books source is selected the UI would use the term "books". Maybe a property on the source would work?
Created attachment 85248 [details] [review] better patch Oops, I'd only searched for "song" and not "Song". This patch fixes that. (In reply to comment #10) > I wonder if we should try to make this conditional on either the type of source > or rhythmdb-entry-type. So, for example, when a possible Audio Books source is > selected the UI would use the term "books". Maybe a property on the source > would work? About half the instances of the word is in source-specific code, so it doesn't apply, quite a few of the others are in places where we aren't referring to any track(s) in particular, and the rest are basically in the long descriptions for tooltips of menu items. I'm not sure it would really be worth changing any of those. Is there any references in particular where you think it would be good to make it change?
Can we get this merged in soon?
(In reply to comment #12) > Can we get this merged in soon? I'm not sure that the the patch on this bug even applied against SVN. Can you try it?
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