erland wrote: 
> Just to make sure I understand you.
> 
> Are you saying that you create multiple playlist files ?
> Or are you saying that you duplicate and rename music files so you have
> multiple copies of the same file in different folders in the music
> folder ?

My library contains just one copy of the actual .flac files for each
performance.  For a number of my CDs, my playlist folder has one static
playlist for that particular CD.  The playlist folder also has a number
of different 'my evening concert' playlists that each list several
pieces from different CDs.

For example: A CD has the cellist Rostropovitch playing a Schubert
sonata with that has three movements, a short collection of five
one-movement pieces by Schumann called Five Pieces in a Folk Tone Op.
102, and a Debussy Cello Sonata with three movements.  There are 11
tracks on the CD, corresponding to the individual movements of the
pieces.  When I rip it, I get 11 .flac files, one for each movement. 
The first three tracks are the Schubert Sonata and I put these three
.flac files in a folder called 'Schubert - D.821 Sonata - Rostropovich"
and put this folder in my library tree under Schubert > Sonatas > D.821.
There may already be other folders there of the same piece but by a
different performer. Then I put the next five tracks in a separate
folder called "Schumann - Op. 102 Five Pieces - Rostropovich" and store
this folder under Schumann > Chamber Music > Duets > Op. 102, which may
have sub-folders with other performances of the Five Pieces too. 
Finally I put the last three tracks into a separate folder called
"Debussy - Cello Sonata - Rostropovich" and file this under French >
Debussy.

When I want to listen, I almost always think of which pieces by which
composers played by which performers I want to hear, and not which
individual tracks. So I browse my music folder down to those sub-folders
that contain the particular performances and add these folders to a
playlist.  I may want an evening of different Schubert Sonatas by
different performers, or an evening of the Florestan Trio playing piano
trios by various composers.  But if I especially like the original CD, I
will make a static playlist that reproduces the CD with the same pieces
in the same order they were in on the CD.  In my example above, I would
make a static playlist that includes the Schubert sonata by
Rostropovich, the Five Pieces by Schumann with Rostropovich, and the
Debussy Cello Sonata by Rostropovich and save the playlist, so that
whenever I want to hear that CD, I just use the playlist.

Hope that clarifies --

Swimmer


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