Listener wrote: > > Your original statement was wrong. I pointed that out. You keep > revising your criteria to avoid admitting that you were wrong.
<sigh> What I actually wrote was: >> 1. Conduct a idealogical campaign to get all makers of music >> players to change the way they treat tags so we can customise them >> in an arbitrary manner to work how we want. >> >> 2. Adapt how we use tags to work within the Track/Album/Artist >> paradigm. >> >> I would suggest that option 2. is the only viable option. > I found one s/w player that works for me. That's certainly a > "viable" solution for me. I'm using Composer and Artist Tags on an > 80GB iPod. That's "viable" for me. For you, may be. I guess I didn't explicitly say that I'm looking for a broader solution, one that works for most people, not just in one or two special cases, with one or two specific music players. > I identified Foobar as another player that can use the tags we need > and I described a file folder browsing approach for portable players. > More "viable" approaches. For you, may be. Neither are viable (i.e. practicable, workable) for most of the market. > That isn't opinion. I wrote that your original statement was wrong > and that your sweeping conclusion was wrong using my own experience. > You have revised "all" to "vast majority" but that doesn't support > your original conclusion. Having even one alternative makes an > approach "viable." For you, may be. For most people? I think not. >> You are obviously on the ideological side of the argument. Fine. >> Good luck to you. > > Can you state your own opinion without using inaccurate, dismissive > language? That's my opinion of where you're coming from. Sorry if you find it dismissive. >> Believe me, I'd like nothing more than a better way of handling >> classical music, but I firmly believe that stepping outside >> Track/Album/Artist is a waste of time because that excludes 99% of >> music players. > > Fine. Keep your opinion. You have already tried to cram it down > everyone else's throat. Just stop trying to convince everyone else > to stop trying to make progress. OK. Enjoy ploughing your own furrow. R. _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
