okay, cleaned up the surrounding code, added some #ui gimmicks, and next thing to do will be saving files - for real for real.
big milestone given #tek still can't! i'll post a proper screencast, too, to showcase the improved #tui and the general workflow.
building a tool for preparing releases (not to mention that whole #diy #daw thing) instead of making music ... what is wrong with me ... smh. #xkcd 1205 comes to mind...
picture a #taggart #tui table like the one above post, even the same #futurist terminal background -- but containing a (test only!) #ytdlp rip from #bandcamp ... where it turns out not all tracks have their proper #id3 tags!
i can now navigate to the artist column for the whole folder and set the artist name for everything in one go!
...still doesn't save it, though 
so next i need to implement the "save" modal asking the user to confirm the metadata updates and do those
The #Wyndford #tower blocks near #Maryhill, #Glasgow, are controversially being brought down by controlled explosion today. I'm surprised #STV News don't mention their #TV history- Gerard Kelly's character lived in one of them in the first ever episode of #Taggart
https://news.stv.tv/west-central/wyndford-tower-blocks-to-be-brought-down-by-controlled-explosion
took a couple minutes to update descriptions on #tek, #vestal, #taggart, and #tengri, developed at https://codeberg.org/unspeaker/tek
#foss #rust #basspistol #codeberg #ratatui #daw #tui #linux, and, most importantly, #thanksfedi ! 
here's a video of #taggart resizing columns using https://docs.rs/unicode-width/latest/unicode_width/ to cut the string at the correct locations!
still doesn't save, still crashes on backspace, but at least it looks cute now! next - make it save tags, thanks to https://docs.rs/lofty (as recommended by https://codeberg.org/Frieder_Hannenheim), and that'll probably be the v0.1
TrimString and TrimStringRef are now available in the underlying framework, #tengri. all work on this precipitates into #tek, the original #tui #daw 
and the above should've been on the #taggart thread instead of here, but we've already established that i suck at keeping all my updates to a single thread...
anyway, first issue closed! #lofty worked great, giving me uniform support for *takes a deep breath* #Aac #Aiff #Ape #Flac #Mpeg #Mp4 #Mpc #Opus #Vorbis #Speex #Wav #WavPack 
up next: using https://docs.rs/unicode-width/latest/unicode_width/ to get me some tidy columns - length of some release titles is just delightfully absurd!
https://docs.rs/lofty/latest/lofty/ looks awesome and exactly what i was looking for!
the other #rustlang thingy that's been cooking (and just passed a #ci run) is called #taggart.
it uses #tengri to pop up an interactive table to edit things, namely: the #id3 tags of music releases
its purpose? why, to make it easier to prepare a certain pile of content (that we've accumulated with a friend over the past, what, 6-7 years), for publication in a sovereign #faircamp instance! but none of it's well-tagged and existing interactive mediatag editors are ugh
Send for #Taggart
There's been a #Purdah
#GeneralElection
Maggie Bell sings No Mean City- end titles for #Taggart:
https://youtu.be/plGBRCKy8zQ?feature=shared
Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran sing Rock Bottom at the #Eurovision Song Contest, 1977:
https://youtu.be/N_WWnKt4GAY?feature=shared
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