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The advantage of a folder structure is that I know where my files are all the time. If I use another OS or copy files to another device, I can just browse throu
by reedlaw 17y ago
The advantage of a folder structure is that I know where my files are all the time. If I use another OS or copy files to another device, I can just browse through my files just like I'm on my own desktop. Rockbox also allows you to browse by ID3 tags, but I rarely use this. I have my own classification scheme that doesn't exactly fit with iTunes' artist/genre/album scheme. For example, in my spoken audio tree, I have two folders, one called "en", another called "ch". These are for English and Chinese respectively. Sometime, I have an file with Chinese audio, but an English filename. What could be easier than to have a folder for Chinese audio? There's only one thing that I can think of that could improve it, and that would be tagging. Sometimes I have a file that falls under more than one classification. If I could tag it with both that would be great. But this doesn't bother me enough to start using iTunes, which has too many annoyances.
- joubert 17y ago0. BTW, you can tell iTunes NOT to copy your music into their folder structure. Check it out in Prefs. 1. Just use iTunes on both OS's. ;-) 2. In iTunes you can right click on an album, track, etc. and copy it elsewhere. 3. You can tag songs/albums/etc. multiple ways in iTunes. I understand where you're coming from, that used to be me; but if you give up your compulsion to control every little (unnecessary) mechanical aspect of managing your media and just let iTunes does what it thinks is right, you'll see that it frees up your time.
- reedlaw 17y ago0. I did that, but why can't I browse my folder structure within iTunes? Rockbox lets me do it. 1. What about Linux? Portable devices not made by Apple? 2. It's easier to drag a drop a directory or use cp -R /audio /media/mp3player than figure out iTunes' methods. 3. I give iTunes one star for that one. Hopefully next gen OS will give us the ability to tag files.
- derefr 17y ago3. Fulltext-search applies to every column, even the not-so-often-filled-out ones. Try mentally reading "Genre" as "Tags"—works perfectly, both practically and semiotically, even when creating playlists. For example, I think I have a few songs from DDR in my library; their genre is "Dance Game Soundtrack". A few from some old japanese equivalent to MP3.com are Genre'd "Indie Asian-language Pop".
- mdemare 17y agoI do that too, but it doesn't work perfectly. For instance, how do you select all your tracks with genre Game, without also getting "Love is a losing game", or creating a smart playlist.
- joubert 17y ago0. Because why do you want to? 1. Uhm. 2. If you set iTunes NOT to copy music into the Library, then you can continue to manage your directory structure manually and do your command line tricks (or even drag & drop the folder visually). The only big limitation which will probably to continue drive you away from iTunes is point 0. 3. You can tag files in OS X. I don't think you can have unlimited number of tags though. (I don't use this feature).