Hi Bill, glad you like the improvements. Just a couple of points:
(1) I'm rather sceptical about the use of Browse Music Folder as a mechanism for finding music. I do use it myself occasionally, when I know exactly what I want, or when I want to play a whole CD. But the use you've described has some drawbacks: - you're not making any use at all of the tagging information. - it feels relatively hard to change (you have to use a file manager to make changes) - you've just lost the ability to play back a whole CD, which was one of your original requirements! - you've made it very hard to make mass changes to a "tag" (which has now become a directory name) I think this will lead you to a fragmented file system, not at all what you want for 1000 CDs. (2) Scaling - ok, my classical collection isn't nearly as big as yours, about 250 CDs so far, but I'm not seeing any signs of scaling problems in usability. If I know what I want (a particular symphony) I can go straight to the various choices and pick one. If I don't know what I want, I can browse in various ways (admittedly not conductor or band yet!!). I find I use the browse by Genre a lot, especially now I've carefully set up multiple genres on all my classical music. (3) Tag program recommendation - see the BeginnersGuideToTagging! Personally I use mp3tag, it is good at making bulk changes to groups of tags. Its not ideal in the Genre field and just a little fiddly for the "extras" (like conductor). I'm still waiting for someone to point out something better. Finding tag errors is usually just a question of looking at the lists (of artists or albums), the discrepancies normally leap off the (web) page. Ceejay. -- ceejay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ceejay's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=148 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18649 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
