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On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:59:20PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:51 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > > The filesystem is not a good way to organise music. For small > > libraries it's OK. To navigate big ones, it blows. > > The filesystem is an entirely excellent way to organise music. So long > as it's all laid out consistently, which is the software's job. > (sound-juicer works well for me, sorry that was rather off topic). File me under: HOLY CRAP YES. I might want to use MORE THAN ONE music program, so storing the organization in some private place is stupid. I might happen to have music tagged as written by "Massive Attack" and "Massive", both in the "Massive Attack" folder. Godddamn music apps could please take note of this! (The artist actually _changed their name_ over time, so there's just no good way to address this with tags.) The filesystem is not a good music _navigation_ system, but it should be a common criteria for file association used across _all_ music library things. If the file layout is 'all my music files get dumped in one directory because I'm a hyperactive teenager on sugar', then the user can ignore this criteria. But if I've spent the time to _organize_ my music already, what is the music library's problem to make up a whole new layer of disorganization and ignore that which already exists? Wow, Various Artists sure is a popular group. To add to this idiocy, many types of music files _do not have tags_. So these libraries essentially pretend that every single fiple of all these tagless categories are written by a single artist and are on a single album. Great. here's a puzzle for you! mods/artists/Hacker/Sad_Daze.xm What could the artist name be? Most Libraries will answer "". It's NOT HARD to give me a couple variables so that I can educate you as to the _consistent_ and _well organized_ layout of all my files, so that you, the Library software can find out some _reliable_ associativity information across all my music. But you're too hateful for that. -joshThere's stuff above here
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