stevek1006 wrote: > I have to agree with Bill here. It does not seem reasonable to be stuck > forever with an inadequate system, simply because it is the current > standard. There are a number of options available to get the > Track/Album/Artist structure back when downloading to a portable if > that is necessary. But I while I can accept those limitations on a > portable, my main music system should not be so limited.
It's not reasonable, and no, you shouldn't be so limited. But that's an idealogical stance (which, incidentally, I support). > Moreover, I think this issue goes beyond classical music. I agree that > classical has some special issues, but I certainly would like this kind > of functionality for the rest of music collection as well. I have an > extensive jazz collection. It would be fantastic to be able to easily > find every track that was composed by Gershwin or Monk. I would also > like to be able to find every track on which Coltrane or Bud Powell sat > in (which should be differentiated from AlbumArtist). And old baby > boomers like myself would certainly like to be able to find all the > covers of Dylan or Lennon & McCartney songs. Of course, this would take > a good deal effort to get the tagging in, but once it was in, it should > be trivial for a database to provide these lists and play them on my > Squeezeboxes. You can already do all those things using the current Squeezecenter database. If you tag your files with the information, then Squeezecenter will find the tracks for you. I suggest you spend some time finding out just what Squeezecenter can do before suggesting how it should be improved. R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
