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> and is there a reason you don't like "Music/Artist/Album/# - Song.mp3"? There are tons of reasons I don't like that format. It's extremely limiting and it on
by rspeer 12y ago
> and is there a reason you don't like "Music/Artist/Album/# - Song.mp3"?
There are tons of reasons I don't like that format. It's extremely limiting and it only applies to a few genres of music. It tries to fit all music into a rigid hierarchy of bands, albums, and tracks, a hierarchy which applied to a reasonable amount of popular music from the '70s to the '00s, and it makes me wonder if the designers of music players ever listen to anything else.
Suppose the song is a collaboration. Which artist directory does it go in?
Suppose the song is a promo track that you downloaded from a band's website or from Bandcamp. What's the album? What's the track number? What happens when the track is eventually released on an album?
Suppose the "song" is the third movement of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 (BWV 1007) as performed by Yo-Yo Ma. Who's the artist? What's the album? (If you're going to say "the album that Yo-Yo Ma's recording was released on", you'll have to be more specific.)
Now can you give answers that put things in the same organizational scheme when it's the second chorale of Wachet Auf (BWV 140) as performed by the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, directed by John Eliot Gardiner?
Suppose the song is Monstrous Turtles, by Zircon, a remix of Koji Kondo's "Super Mario World" music, released as OCRemix #1558. Is "OCRemix" an album under "Zircon"? Is it track number 1558? What about the fact that most OCRemixes are not by Zircon? Does it go in the same place if you download it from Zircon's web site instead of OCRemix?
- wlesieutre 12y ago> There are tons of reasons I don't like that format. It's extremely limiting and it only applies to a few genres of music. It tries to fit all music into a rigid hierarchy of bands, albums, and tracks, a hierarchy which applied to a reasonable amount of popular music from the '70s to the '00s, and it makes me wonder if the designers of music players ever listen to anything else. And here are Rhythbox's five options for library folder naming. http://i.imgur.com/Xl0XcGy.png http://i.imgur.com/Xl0XcGy.png None of them will help you. Your library sounds like a perfect case for unchecking the "Keep Music folder organized" and just managing it yourself, since there's no single pattern that will work for the whole thing. Incidentally, that's the one library organization option that elementary OS has. And taking another look at Rhythmbox, either there's no option for "Let me organize my own damn files," or they hid it somewhere unrelated. Maybe you can launch it with a command line flag to do that... http://i.imgur.com/Dq6gcG1.png http://i.imgur.com/Dq6gcG1.png