Suggestion: Swap Positions of Track Name and Artist Name Inputs

[lucho-girotti]

When manually scrobbling a song, I often find myself mistakenly typing the artist's name into the track name input field, and vice versa.

To make the process more intuitive, I suggest swapping the positions of the two fields: Track Name would be the first (top) input field, and Artist Name the second.

This matches how song information is commonly presented, as "Track Name - Artist Name" is more familiar than "Artist Name - Track Name."

Additionally, the presence of the "Swap Artist and Track" button suggests that this confusion may already be a common experience for users.

Thank you!

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Priority: Low

[lucho-girotti]

P.S.: Thank you for developing such a useful and straightforward tool!

[elamperti]

Hi Lucho,

Thanks for taking the time to share your experience and suggestions on this.

I added the swap button initially because I occasionally find tracks listed as Title - Artist, and I needed a way to quickly swap them. But, up until now, I haven't heard complaints about the form inputs' order (or confusion about it). From what I've seen, the Artist - Title format is by far the most common.

I've also checked the stats for the usage of this button vs all scrobbles, and it turns out is being used 0,1% of the time by a similar amount of users, who use it on average less than 4 times per month! (If anything, it makes me wonder if I should remove the swap button altogether)

Users are already used to the current fields' order, so changing it now will create issues.

If you are pasting "Title - Artist" into the form, make sure to paste it into the Title field: Open Scrobbler will auto-split it correctly, without needing to swap the fields after.

Based on all this, I don't think I'll be changing the form. But I'm still interested in your experience: where do you see songs with the Title - Artist format? Feel free to share more about your experience and counter-arguments (if possible, with data or existing examples), I'm open to reconsidering this if there's a sound reason to implement it or enough interest from other users.