import formatting hard to parse mentally
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With the current formatting output, it’s extremely hard to find the crucial information. Current output might look like this (minus the colors):
```
4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (26.9%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)
5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (25.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)
# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort? s
/home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)
Finding tags for album "Austin Wintory - The Conformation".
Candidates:
1. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (28.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)
2. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (28.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)
3. Austin Wintory - The River Why (27.7%) (missing tracks, tracks, album) (2012)
4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (19.1%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)
5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (17.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)
# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort?
```
I deliberately cut one output in half and used a terminal with half a screen’s width.
The crucial information I need for a decision is:
- What record is this about
- What gets changed
- What can I do
Especially the first point is hard at the moment.
## A few points to break it down
### new entry
```
# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort? s
/home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)
Finding tags for album "Austin Wintory - The Conformation".
```
A newline would greatly increase readability.
### paths
```
/home/philip/Downloads/music/Austin Wintory - The Conformation (4 items)
```
Since you invoke the import with `beets import `, it would make sense to use relative paths to reduce clutter (and overlong lines).
### noise
Some chars are mostly noise after the first time:
```
Finding tags for album
Candidates:
Correcting tags from:
To:
URL:
```
## Suggestion for reformatting
```
./Austin Wintory - Monaco- What's Yours Is Mine (17 items)
Austin Wintory - Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
-> Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine
* What's Yours Is Mine -> What’s Yours Is Mine
* Prison life -> Prison Life
* The Devil's Trick -> The Devil’s Trick
* Can't Resist (ft. Laura Vall) -> Can’t Resist (title)
http://musicbrainz.org/release/8bae12ae-945d-4f8c-866c-0892e5f31e15
(Similarity: 99.9%) (tracks) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)
./Austin Wintory - Soul Fjord (8 items)
Austin Wintory - Soul Fjord
http://musicbrainz.org/release/a75abdad-57be-40bf-8464-ac5090225ff5
(Similarity: 100.0%) (Digital Media, 2014, XW)
./Austin Wintory - Spirit of the Cosmos (13 items)
---
1. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (33.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (CD, 2013, US, T-65b Records)
2. Austin Wintory - Monaco: The Gentleman’s Private Collection (33.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)
3. Austin Wintory - The River Why (31.5%) (tracks, missing tracks, album) (2012)
4. Austin Wintory - The Banner Saga (26.9%) (tracks, missing tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2014, XW, Reference Recordings)
5. Austin Wintory - Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine / The Gentleman’s Private Collection (25.3%) (missing tracks, tracks, album, ...) (Digital Media, 2013, XW)
---
# selection (default 1), Skip, Use as-is, as Tracks, Group albums,
Enter search, enter Id, aBort? s
```
I’m not entirely happy with the last one, the list should be clearly visible and the prompt is two lines.
Probably even the word `Similarity` should be taken out, the color-coded percentage is self-explaining.
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