dwc Wrote: > I understand your frustration, but I disagree with your suggestion to > change the implementation. If you select "browse by folder", then you > expect the server to present the directories and files according to the > file and folder names. It does not follow that you would expect the > server to jump into the files at the last stage and present according > to metadata tags. That is what the other browsing methods are for.
I don't think so. Browse By Folder is, to me, a method exactly peer to Browse By Artist, Browse By Genre, or any of the other Browse By X things you can do. Nobody would expect Browse By Artist to get you a different display on the file level than Browse By Genre, so why should Browse By Folder be the one single exception to this otherwise consistent interface? (Yes, I know: Performance. But if performance wasn't a concern, I don't think anyone would prefer the current interface over the old one.) > You have two solutions. Correct your file names, or correct your > metadata tags. Both are thoroughly correct already. But no amount of correct metadata will let me browse by first choosing whether I'm looking at my music or my wife's music. (Incorrect metadata would -- I could hack up the genre tag or something -- but that's ugly.) A folder browse allows me to use any arbitrary organization method; no folder browse forces me to use some combination of genre/artist/album. -- mkozlows _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
