slimpy;245749 Wrote: > No it's not a horrible idea but it's not a very good one either. > I don't think the average user wants to manually fill in database > tables. Slimserver is - for a lot of users - still very geeky. Adding > such functionality only adds to this feeling. > > The concept of having the meta data seperated from the physical files > is not very appealing. Even worse, a part of the metadata is in the > files and another part isn't. > IMO slimserver should read metadata only from tags and should do as > much as possible transparent to the user, not needing any user > intervention. > > You are used to working with databases and it shows in your solution. > It's a good solution for application programmers, database > administrators and similar IT folks, but it's not for average Joe. > > -s.
I appreciate the hesitation to separate the data from the files. On the other hand, this is really only for the multi-contributor items and is really meant as a last chance to fix up the data. IMO, "ARTIST=John Smith;Jane Doe" and "ARTISTSORT=Smith John;Doe Jane" is messy and I would imagine if I were that average Joe, I'd rather have a place to go to see exactly how my artists are going to come up in a list. I'm also not sure what the difference is between "manually filling in database tables" (which they wouldn't ... I would assume some sort of friendly UI) and doing what I would consider pretty tedious multi-valued tags in Mp3tag or iTunes. And this requires setting the data in all the files; even with the batch modification capabilities of these tools, there is lots of room for error. Of course, there is the big con to this with the separation aspect you mentioned. It's indeed an issue if you want your music to be portable. Personally, I don't need my music outside of this system. And the music I do push out to my portable player would have a hard time of the multi-artist tags, sorting or no. But I digress ... this *is* the geek in me coming to a solution, which is admittedly not something most users would embrace. I went ahead and tinkered with my own installation and got it running ... sorta, with no UI; I still have to fire up Access or MySQL Query Browser until I can piece together a more usable web interface. -- nuggetboy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nuggetboy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14186 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40294 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
