User interface translation

[simoncn]

Thanks very much for this. See my responses below.

(26-05-2020 21:49)BB1 Wrote:  As a native German speaker, I’d like to make a few suggestions regarding the German localisation.

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text.disc = Scheibe {0,number,#}

The German translation for "compact disc" is "Compact Disc". Hence I’d replace "Scheibe" with "Disc". "Scheibe" is only used colloquially if talking about a CD or LP.

I will make this change.

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tag.bpm = Schlägen pro Minute

Should be "Schläge pro Minute", but BPM is a well known unit in Germany as well.

Which of these do you think is better?

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text.none_of_above = [nichts von oben]

I’m not sure in what context this is being used in MiminServer, but if is similar to an answer option in a multiple-choice question, I’d suggest "nichts vom oben genannten".

It is used when files have multiple values for a tag. For example, you might have files with the following Genre tags:

File 1:
GENRE=Rock
GENRE=Disco

File 2:
GENRE=Rock
GENRE=Metal

File 3:
GENRE=Rock

If you select Rock for Genre, you will see three more sub-choices for Genre:

Disco
-- shows file 1
Metal
-- shows file 2
[none of above]
-- shows file 3

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text.item = {0,number,#} Artikel
text.items = {0,number,#} Artikel

Now it gets really difficult. In English, the noun "item" has a lot of meanings. The same holds true for the German noun "Artikel". If e.g. a shop offers more than 10,000 different items, "Artikel" would be the correct translation for "items". In the context of MinimServer’s use of "item", "Artikel" is for sure the wrong translation.

If I’m not mistaken, clicking "items" in MinimServer shows a large list of all single objects it has recognized. The German translation for a single entry (item) in a list is "Eintrag" (the plural is "Einträge"). Having said that, I don’t think that "Eintrag" is the best possible German translation for "item" in MinimServer, but right now I’m failing to come up with a better translation.

The list of items contains single objects (track files) and it also contains groups (a group contains a number of closely related track files, like the movements of a symphony). The word 'item' was chosen as a generic term to cover both these cases and possibly additional cases in the future.