Philip Meyer Wrote: 
> What about adding a preference option in Server Settings -> Performance,
> or a Browse Music Folder format option in Server Settings -> Formatting?
> Eg. allow a title format of "Raw filesystem".

That would, of course, satisfy me, but probably not a great idea. 
Maintaining two separate codepaths would be a pain, and probably lead
to even more subtle and irritating bugs later on.

> 
> I can see good reasons for both the old and new style of browsing the
> music folder.
> 

The only reason I see for the bare filesystem view is speed, but it
seems unlikely to me that you couldn't get the speed improvements with
a better UI.  It might be HARDER to do that way, but I really think
it's worth the effort:  Having your songs display inconsistently
depending on how you browsed to them is an ugly bit of UI that violates
user expectations and is uglier to boot.

> In the new style, I think at least the known extension types can be
> stripped off for display.  Eg, I have a symbolic links "Alex's Music"
> and "Phil's Music", which actually appear as "Alex's Music.lnk" and
> "Phil's Music.lnk" (shortcuts in Windows).

Taking the ".wma" off the files would be better than nothing, but it's
still suboptimal.


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mkozlows
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