Tagging and database issues aside, there's also the question of how do you organize the directory structure on the disk. With popular music, you can easily use a variant of the Artist/Album/Track hierarchy. With classical, the only thing that seems certain to me is that whatever directory structure I choose, at some level there should be the "directory per album" structure. This is useful to eliminate dupication of "per album" objects such as cover jpegs and booklet PDFs, and it is probably best to allow certain low-level disk management procedures to happen without the benefit of the tag-constructed database. Of course, on a day-to-day basis, this directory structure will be "hidden" because the player will access things through the database constructed by the file scanner fron the tags.
Right now, the directory heirarchy I'm using for classical is maybe not the best: Peformer (Soloist - Orchestra - Conductor) [directory] Album (Label - LabelNo) [sub-directory] Work (Composer - Name-of-Work) [sub-directory] Movement (Number. Name-of-Movement-or-Tempo) [file] -- Timothy Stockman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy Stockman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8867 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43851 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
