willyhoops;240648 Wrote: > Putting effort into tags is a huge job and the BMF technique solves it > totally as long as you don't care much about browsing and playing > tracks instead of albumns. > > Still no matter how much effort you put into tags a careful custom tree > structure can not be beaten by a computer generated tree of course! This "computer generated tree" business is a straw man -- where does that come from?
Having good tags is no easier/harder than having a careful custom tree structure. For most people, the tree levels use the same elements that are in the tags, eg, /genre/artist/album. But with a tree like that you're stuck with that hierarchy, whereas with a relational db you can view by any of the elements. What does your tree look like that makes it both information-rich and easy to navigate? This is a sincere question, because I'm figuring you must have some completely different way of approaching this. Using the slimserver db one can search an album title (or artist, etc.) using the web ui or remote (with LazySearch) and be there in a few keystrokes, whereas it would take a lot of keypresses to get there via BMF, especially with the remote. And on a slow server like the qnap you pay an extra heavy penalty, because it takes longer to read the tree than it does the metadata in the tags. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39082 _______________________________________________ squeezenetwork mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/squeezenetwork
