> -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 3:56 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: iPod shuffle > > > > I've never used Windows Media Player to manage my mucis collection. > > > I'm curious to know what that involves to "set up a library" in WMP? > > > > Probably nothing more that doing the same thing in iTunes I would > expect. > ---<snip>--- > > Just about all of that does sound very similar to iTunes. Your > comments did bring one additional iTunes feature to mind (WMP prolly > has it too). When I first started using iTunes it tried to move all > of my music around on my drive into it's own directory structure. > This pissed me off greatly since I had, like you, gone to great > lengths to organise my music into a directory structure by genre, > artist, and album. I cursed iTunes alot, and turned that feature off > right away. > > However, after some time I turned it back on and now love it. Now > when I change/modify/correct the ID3 tag info, iTunes will > automagically move the files into an /artist/album/song.mp3 structure, > with compilation and VA albums in a /compilations/album/song.mp3 > structure.
WMP 10 will do that as well (but not earlier versions). I just don't like some of its decisions. You get full control over the filenames used, but I like my files to be grouped into general categories (Artists, comedy, children's, instrumental, Soundtracks, etc) that really only make sense to me. Then, in the files, I set sub categories (Movie Soundtrack, Game Soundtrack, Stage Soundtrack, Anime Soundtrack, etc). Again these really only make sense to me. I've heard people (both iTunes and WMP) that LOVE the way the player's sort their files... I'm just too picky. ;^) So I manage my file structure but I set WMP to "monitor" those folders - so whenever new files are added they get placed in the library immediately. You can also tell it monitor a special "rip" folder - any files placed in there will be modified (names changed to match your settings, ID information added, etc). So far I'm happy. My real gripes related to all is the playlist management (or, specifically, lack thereof). Many devices don't honor the internal "track number" and try to play files alphabetically (which suck for concerts and stand-up comedy) so you have to create playlists. By default WMP creates playlists with absolute paths (which makes sense if you're only going to use one machine). To address this I wrote a little script to generate relatively pathed playlists in the folder of each album. It's simplistic but works well enough for what I need. I really wish there was a feature of the player to do this however. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:142557 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
