Pat Farrell;141143 Wrote: > > We are not talking about "a particular player" we are talking about > SlimServer which is a music libary.
SlimServer is a single application. Anything you put into SlimServer's database won't be available for all the other apps that you use to play your music, or all the other devices to which you sync it. That's fine for metadata you don't really care about in a primary fashion, I suppose -- if it's only useful to SlimServer, it's just as well that only SlimServer know about it -- but definitely not how you'd want to handle Artist/Title/Genre stuff. > > You are correct that moving files makes it harder to track the > descriptive data, but it is by no means all that hard. I don't believe you understood what I was saying. Any time you copy files in a way that's not aware of the database -- by using a regular file copy in Windows Explorer, an FTP upload, a BitTorrent thing, whatever -- the metadata doesn't go along for the ride, and is lost. This is one of the well-known problems with centralized metadata stores, and one of the reason that in-file metadata is standard for essentially all types of files these days. -- mkozlows ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mkozlows's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=62 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27946 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
