Hello everyone, I am fairly new to Linux & Rhythmbox, I've already tried an aweful lot of different music library managers (on Windows, I used Mediamonkey) and while I first thought Banshee was the one I'd stay with, I'm now back to using Rhythmbox, which is better for my way of browsing music and then playing it (without creating playlists).
I've browsed the archives and just stumbled across this post and thought I'd add my two cents. On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:44:47 -0800 Justin wrote: > I think album artist is just a much more logical way of organizing > songs than artist is, since a lot of times a CD has tracks by > different artists, but the CD itself is organized by a single group. > (A common example: 'Diana Ross' vs. 'Diana Ross and the Supremes' on > a CD of Diana Ross' Greatest Hits.) I agree completely - thinking of compilations as well, were the album artist is most likely "Various artists". What I'd love to see would be a "normal" naming scheme and a "Various artists" naming scheme. That way, compilations could be easily stored in a single directory (I think iTunes has a config switch in its track properties "this track is part of a compilation", or something like that to achieve that). Organizing a collection when it becomes larger (I have "only" about 10.000 songs in my collection) is not easy if you want to keep it tidy and easily accessible not only from the music manager, but also from the file system level. I have my collection organized in a directory structure like that: artists +a +abba (no, I don't have abba in my collection!:-) +annihilator +b +beatles, the +bee gees (hehe) various (compilations, by record label) +dragonfly +order odonata 1 +elektrolux +ambient diary 1 +dub backups 2 Mediamonkey allowed me to keep this naming scheme completely automated as soon as an album was propperly tagged. It can use "complex" naming schemes that could even include "if...then...else" clauses (oh yes, I *did* struggle with it until I had it working perfectly for me, but after that it saved me so much time). Just sharing the thought for the moment of course. :-) -- Greetings, Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de) _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
