MelonMonkey;206763 Wrote: > But for all intents and purposes, if your music is properly tagged, it > shouldn't matter where it's stored or how its filesystem hierarchy is > set up.
Mmmmmm... maybe. Albums with the same name remain a challenge. If artist 'a' has an album named 'xyz' and artist 'b' has one named 'xyz', then do you have one compilation album named 'xyz' or two non-compilations? A smart cataloging program will take into account the folder location of a tracks. When albums are split among folders, either you may need to do something special to unify the albums or else you need to expect less-than-perfect scanning results. I think there are number of ways this could have been done, but it takes some additional intelligence on the part of the scanner and/or some additional attention to tagging. For instance, in the above example, if they were each marked with an ALBUMARTIST (set equal to ARTIST in both cases) then that should make it obvious to the scanner that they're not the same album. Unfortunately, _requiring_ all of a compilation album's tracks to reside in the same folder was the "50lb sledgehammer" approach. Easy, dumb, and sure to aggravate some people. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31716 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
