DJanGo wrote: > when i started i'd used folder links cause that was the only option to > handle more than one harddrive as medialibrary without using a raid > volume. I think that's actually the reason given in the old thread for the server supporting folder links at all. Has it not always been the case that LMS supports more than one media library folder? The way it is now, if you don't mind having each drive's media folder at the top level, it doesn't seem folder links are necessary to solve the multi-drive problem; you just add those folders to the list.
DJanGo wrote: > Anyways its your reason and i cant find a needed Way to use them today - > but you could help me - may i find that pretty. Tags and folder hierarchies work great for namevalue pairs and relationship trees, respectively, but they aren't very good at representing a graph (web) of relationships, nor are tag-based "media library" apps/services very sophisticated in the ways they allow you to interact with this information. A "facets" type of interface can be helpful in this regard. So can folder links. When browsing or adding to my files, I want something close to the same kind of flexibility as I would want when I'm interacting with an abstracted view of their metadata. For example, when I browse a diverse media collection "by genre", I don't want be just picking from a flat list of 700 subgenre tag values (and all their variations), and then picking from a flat list of songs under that. Rather, I first want to traverse the [I don't know the word for it...hypergraph?] tree/web thing which allows me to start out by locating the style in terms of increasing specificity and related styles. Then I want the view to switch to whatever is most appropriate for that particular sub-collectione.g., now that I have the music's style, I often want to be able to narrow it down by eras, producers, artists, hits, influences, regions, and so on. For most sub-collections, only certain options will be needed, but this choice will be different for every branch of the tree. Where needed, it should be possible to navigate directly to other categories with closely related subject matter. Creating new categories needs to be convenient as well. Well, all of that is possible (not elegantly, but "good enough") with folder trees and the ability to link between arbitrary folders. So that's what I do for some of the collections I maintain, and I am in the habit of using folder views to locate music. I do have other, relatively specialized/homogeneous collections where I don't need to browse the organizational structure much at all, so for those file sets, I do things in what is nowadays "the normal way", with everything dumped into an arbitrary and shallow folder tree, and tags providing enough info for simplistic keyword searches to get me what I need. This just isn't ideal for the main collection I want to access via my Squeezebox Boom. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mjb2016's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66432 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106698
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