On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
> It may have an intuitive way - like Mac OS X has - but
> what it does in the background (in the directories where all the
> music files
> are) is not very transparent.
This is one commonly made argument that baffles me.
What it does in the background is put the files in a very clear and
easy to follow order:
Artist
---->Album 1 Name
---->Track 01 Name
---->Track 02 Name
---->Track 03 Name
...etc.
Seems pretty damn intuitive to me :-)
The only place it breaks down is when it doesn't have the info it
needs to put these things together.
I don't believe you can get a whole lot more transparent than that.
Here's a sample from my own iTunes library, filenames and such have
never been messed with by me:
<http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/miscjunk/itunes_dirlist.html>
Some are from the iTunes music store, some are ripped from CD's, but I
never have to bother with messing with that dumb low level stuff like
making sure files are in the right order...that's why I have a computer!
The only time I've had to mess with song metadata is when CDDB didn't
know about the CD (a couple local artists) and when the metadata was
messed up (some Dead shows from Nugs.net that came down in the wrong
order for some reason.).
But I have better things to do with my time than manually organize the
music.
Again, this is a matter of personal taste: You enjoy messing about
with having to manually mange your files. I don't. Some people love
gardening, I consider yardwork a chore.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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