> As promised, I've updated [the Beginner's GuideToClassical] > to cover some of the points you raised.
I've read it. I think you can covered good points and plugged a big hole in the SS/SB documentation. A comment about choices for album name and title. I think the choices depend on how much classical music you have. I am not sure that your recommendations will scale well to a library or 1000+ classical CDs. I might have a positive recommendation in a couple of days. Browse Music Folder is a definite option for finding music in a large collection. I build a hierarchy of directories with MP3 files from various sources. I'm just getting starting trying it out with SS/SB. This hierarchy is MyMusic/Composer/(type of music)/work/(performers). The bottom level directory usually contains one music file per movement. I only use the (type of music) level if I need to split the works in smaller sets. The performers directory name has a concatenation of whatever tags is appropriate for the work - conductor_orchestra or soloist_conductor_orchestra or quartet name. I think that Browse Music Folder has promise and folder organization might be discussed at more length and in terms of the reason for it: to split browse lists into more manageable lengths. > I suspect I still haven't gone as far as you want, I think that a good user's guide is needed. I agree that it is reasonable for you to avoid it. I think I said earlier that the choices made in ripping, tagging, storing and naming files were linked to the UI mechanisms available in SS/SB. I think a bit more explanation of why your recommendations are important would be good. Right now, these isn't much documentation about what happens at each step of browsing. Telling beginners why they are tagging things as you recommend and how they will select music using those tags would help a beginner alot. You stress consistency. I found that however much I tried to be consistent, I would make some mistakes. Some words on cleaning up your tags would be useful. I've found that tracking down mistakes isn't trivial. I think that recommending a tag editor program that is viual and capable and saying that there ar elots of other choices would be helpful. Thanks for making the effort. It is worthwhile in itself and I appreciate your taking the further step to talk about modifications to the SS/SB to better handle classical music. Bill -- Listener ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Listener's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2508 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
