Dan Jensen a écrit : > Surely a program which grabs the information from your well-designed > file system schema would work for you here? The trick is, doing it in > this manner (that is, with tags) makes sure you have processing power > left over when browsing the music, as all the tags are cached in a > high-performance database. It also gives you the advantage of being > able to find tracks directly by artist or by album or by... you get > the idea, i'm sure :) While your filesystem is optimal for a single > path through the music, the method used in the qt mediaplayer makes > sure that the information is accessible through a number of different > paths. So... give tags a shot before you discard their usefulness ;) > >> qtopia-phone-x11-mediaplayer seems totally usable with fingers, and >> that's the big motivation for me to use it. > > On a related topic, the media player designed by the Qt people is > rather simplistic, and while it works quite well, the Amarok team is > working on a new player based on the technologies in Amarok 2 - what > that means is that you'll be able to do all sorts of interesting > things... This is again all tags based stuff, so may well not be what > you want, but as general information for other people ;) > > ..leinir
I just want a single view named "Folders" (which would be a file explorer) instead of the existing "Albums", "Artists", "Genre". I totally understand that a tag-based player could be interesting for some people, but I *know* where my files are in my collection. If I want to listen to Metallica's last album on my laptop (with Sonata/MPD), I just go into metal/Metallica/ and I add 'Death Magnetic' folder to my playlist. I don't need to search "Genre:Thrash" or "Genre:Metal", nor "Artist:Metallica" because I know where this folder is. In fact, yes it is optimal for a single path to the music, and that's what I want. The tag-based approach is a good way to dig into a collection you are discovering. Maybe it's shared by a friend, maybe you don't know what you have on your disk... whatever, I know which CD I ripped and where I stored it on my disk, and collection size is not a limit of this non tag-based approach you can trust me ;) To make a debian analogy, I use debtags to find a package providing a functionality I want, but I do not use the tags when I *know* package's name. Xavier. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
