mp3/id3 tagging with easyTag, best working practise?

[bugbear6502]

Empirical testing (on a copy of a subset of my data) has shown:

In "Tree" (aka File/Directory) browsing, clicking a new directory loads new files,
and loses any edits you have made to old files. There is
no warning about this. Is this an option somewhere?

In "Artist and Album" browsing, changes are retained
as you click between various artists and albums.

However I can find no easy to (assuming you've change a handful
of files scattered between a dozen albums from a selection of hundreds)
to easily save all your changes. The only way seems to be to select
ALL albums, then select ALL tracks, and save all tracks, at which point
saving an unchanged track is a no-op. This gives the correct results,
but has a performance issue (the displayed track list, which may be large,
is recalculated after every file-save).

The workround is to save each change as you go along, which is not
very convenient or elegant.

Have I missed an easy way out of this? I simply want to be
able to tidy up faulty/missing metadata in a collection
of around 1300 tracks, 100 albums, 40 artists.

It shouldn't be this hard.

BugBear

[tgalati4]

I use Control-S to save files before I leave a directory. Yes, you are correct, changes are lost if you don't save them after you make them. That is why the files show up in red. Red files need to be saved otherwise any changes will be lost. This is inconvenient for your workflow, but that is the way easytag works. And you are correct, scanning large directories or saving large directories can take some time.