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It goes under Albums, no?
by ErikAugust 7y ago
It goes under Albums, no?
- chrisseaton 7y agoThat was my point... you're not really using the filesystem. It's just a big pile of files if you stick it all in Albums. iTunes organises that because the filesystem can't.
- klodolph 7y agoThe question is how you organize the albums, hierarchically. The easy case is when you have artist/album/track, like: Music > Buckethead > Enter The Chicken > Funbus But how do you file, say, classical music? Do I file this album under Wilhelm Furtwängler, the conductor? Do I file this under Bach and Beethoven, the conductors of various tracks? Do I file this under Wiener Philharmoniker? In iTunes it’s irrelevant, because I can find the album by looking for Composer=Bach, Composer=Beethoven, artist=Wilhelm Furtwaengler, or artist=Wiener Philharmoniker. With a filesystem I would… use symlinks or something?
- mynameishere 7y agoBeethoven goes under Beethoven. No one groups stuff by orchestra. And just because a media player respects your filesystem doesn't mean you can't search by the metadata in the Mp3s. This is extra-helpful when you realize not all Mp3s have metadata. In that case, such search routines will just pass it by.
- klodolph 7y agoBut filing it under Beethoven means that the album is split apart. This doesn’t make sense to me.