[Bug] Closing the "Edit metadata" window refreshes the audio library view

[VulgarAscetic]

As per title, closing the "Edit metadata" window refreshes the audio library view

Reproduction steps:
1. Open audio library
2. Scroll or search to a track in the middle of the library
3. Right click track and "Edit metadata for selection"
4. Click "Cancel" or "Update"

Result: Audio library refreshes and goes back to the top

This is awkward when, for example, editing track titles on multiple files. You need to search/scroll back to the album every time

Preferred result: the audio library window does not refresh when closing "Edit metadata" window

[dro]

That's how my local library plug-in has been designed to live reflect changes vs what the views query is setup to be & it depends on what the changes were as to how the handling is applied (e.g. if it is deemed to affect the filters or only within the results pane).

The current selections should however be being maintained when the action happens (or can be nudged to do so via preferences -> media library -> local library -> view filters -> checking the remember search option if not already checked) though I know there's some issues with the album related filter not working correctly which has been fixed in my dev build but that doesn't help things for the current 21640 preview build (as of this reply). Maybe that's part of the problem you're having but I don't have any plans at this time to not do live updates.

[VulgarAscetic]

Thank you for replying! Apologies I missed it until now. This is definitely a bug in that case, as any current search will not be respected after a metadata update - the library view will always "refresh" back to the top once the Edit Metadata window is closed

[dro]

Preferences -> Media Library -> Local Library -> View Filters tab -> ensure the 'remember search filters' option is checked otherwise I can't see it behaving wrongly unless I'm just not testing things correctly. As I do expect some actions to effectively cause it to start over depending on what was changed vs what was being shown otherwise it causes information to appear in the wrong position vs existing data.

[VulgarAscetic]

Yeah I have that option enabled.

But I have found an updated repro: you do not need to actually change any metadata. Simply scroll halfway down your library, right click any item, "edit metadata for selection..." and the immediately close the new window without changing any fields and the entire library will refresh back to default view at the top.

EDIT: I'm an idiot and literally had this as the original repro lol

Somewhat conversely, if you have a search active that finds one result, (eg. a specific song title) and then change some metadata that invalidates the search, the library will then refresh but land in the CORRECT location with the changed item highlighted. But I have seen that there was a change regarding this in the latest build which could have helped here.