M7CC wrote: > Yes I currently have LMS set up as intended. As I said the Playlist > folder works but I can only choose one folder in the settings -- > therefore I can only browse the contents of one folder on my player. > The Music Folder breaks everything out by folder (playlists and files) > but I cannot select an m3u file without the "Cannot Request..." error. > Again all I want is to see playlists (only) broken out by folder, by > whatever method (and I still need to look into the symbolic links > suggested by reinholdk). > > Files are pretty well tagged, I spend a lot of time doing that. But I > really only use tags to tell me what is Now Playing, that's about it. I > don't use them to browse. And I think it's very difficult to remain > consistent when you have a lot of files. For example, in my Artists > folder, I may see: > > The Beatles > Beatles > Beatles, The > > ...which can be corrected with MP3tag or something but it takes a lot of > time once you hunt down all your Beatles files. Then you remember you > did it a different way with The Who... > > Whereas in my big "Rock" playlist folder I could have the following > which is super easy to make fixes to -- and note some files will appear > in multiple playlists, which you can't do with tags alone. > > Beatles -- Abby Road.m3u > Beatles -- John songs.m3u > Beatles -- Revolver.m3u > Beatles -- White Album.m3u > Beatles -- various mono mixes.m3u > V/A -- favorite British Invasion.m3u > > Anyway I'm probably stating the obvious here. I think the point is it's > good to have flexibility. Some prefer playlists and some prefer the > various tag attributes. It drives me nuts that I have to do all kinds > of acrobatics just to get my media server to list things the way Windows > Explorer does (by folder/files).
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