Dan Sully [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Unfortunately, everyone has a different theory on how to organize their
directories. We've seen some bizzare things, like putting all tracks from an
artist, no matter their album into the same directory.
I don't doubt you've seen bizarre things, but it seems you can best
support the vast majority of users by looking at the directory. Why
not do that, and then have an option for those who feel the need to
store their files in incompatible ways?
Isn't there an albumid tag? Seems you could support that as an
alternative to using the directory. Would be so much cleaner.
Tagging is a more straightforward way of indicating what you want,
and doesn't impact the directory structure.
But even as it is you can't represent what you want with tags alone.
You have to change at least three options from their defaults, and
possibly populate a list of common album names. Then you have to
add a non-standard ID3 tag iTunes invented and almost no software
supports to your music files, just to get reasonable behavior.
And why are the defaults the way they are? Does anyone really want
two albums with the same name by different artists combined? Does
anyone want every track of a compilation album to be treated as a
separate album?
greg
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