Who else would be interested in better ID3 tag support in Subsonic?
Specifically, reading album art from the ID3 tags and an option to organize your music by ID3 Tag info rather than folder structure.
Better ID3 Tag support........
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Better ID3 Tag support........
by hogfan » Thu Jan 27, 2011 3:21 am
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by jaja » Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:13 pm
hello (sorry for my bad english !!)
I answer "NO" !
It's very fine like this !!!
since few days, I have tested subsonic, ampache and Jinzora.
if I undestand fine :
- subsonic user directory structure for sorted and listed files.
- ampache and Jinzora use tags for sorted and listed files.
I have go many compilations with various artists in musical collection.
in ampache and Jinzora, all albums are sort fine and compilations are ""various" like artits name. But all artists appear in artists list
79 pages.... not simple in my phone...
no problem with subsonic....
I answer "NO" !
It's very fine like this !!!
since few days, I have tested subsonic, ampache and Jinzora.
if I undestand fine :
- subsonic user directory structure for sorted and listed files.
- ampache and Jinzora use tags for sorted and listed files.
I have go many compilations with various artists in musical collection.
in ampache and Jinzora, all albums are sort fine and compilations are ""various" like artits name. But all artists appear in artists list
79 pages.... not simple in my phone...
no problem with subsonic....
regards
jaja
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by 3R3 » Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:36 pm
I have to agree with jaja here. The usage of the folder structure makes SS so damn fast and flexible. The downside is you have to sort it first of course, but thats not too bad once done 
Sorting by genre needed? Just make genres the topmost folders, ie. genre > artist > album > song.
Ok, I realize I must come across like the conservationist I partly am, and sometimes having the option to use tags more flexible would be handy. But as jaja said, imagine how big the index gets with every damn artist from every compilation you got. Since the index is transmitted as a URL (or so I heard) there is a size limit to it, so maybe this could be one reason too not to change it.
Sorting by genre needed? Just make genres the topmost folders, ie. genre > artist > album > song.
Ok, I realize I must come across like the conservationist I partly am, and sometimes having the option to use tags more flexible would be handy. But as jaja said, imagine how big the index gets with every damn artist from every compilation you got. Since the index is transmitted as a URL (or so I heard) there is a size limit to it, so maybe this could be one reason too not to change it.
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This is a must
by meta » Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:57 am
I've registered just to post this message...
I think Subsonic is exactly what I'm looking for. However, I don't use it, for the sole reason that it requires that folder names be artist and album names.
Maybe you all listen to artists and albums with names that are 7-bit ASCII and don't include characters like : * ? and so on. I'm not so lucky. I have music by μ-Ziq, Eno/Cale, Funkstörung, M|A|R|R|S, Pan*American, +/-, and « rinôçérôse ». I've got albums called "f♯a♯∞", "!K7", "Blechsdöttir: The Nexus Phase", "( )", "99.9 F°", "Sånger från 63° N", "Ænima", "π", and "In‧No‧Sense? Nonsense!".
Even if my music server's filesystem and OS will allow all those in directory names, there's no way I'm going to take that approach, because then whenever I try to transfer the files anywhere--to put them on my phone, or simply for backup--I get endless problems with files being missed or software crashing. I know because I had such problems until I used a handy Linux utility to strip all the filenames and directory names down to 7-bit ASCII.
And even if those fancy filenames didn't cause problems copying, frankly I don't *want* files named "2 ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]]" and "}.}@}.@.}@}." on my hard drive just so I can get accurate information in Subsonic.
So yeah. I emphatically agree that Subsonic has to support ID3 tags as a source of artist/album/track information, not just file and folder names. By all means make it an optional feature and warn people that it will make the software slower.
I think Subsonic is exactly what I'm looking for. However, I don't use it, for the sole reason that it requires that folder names be artist and album names.
Maybe you all listen to artists and albums with names that are 7-bit ASCII and don't include characters like : * ? and so on. I'm not so lucky. I have music by μ-Ziq, Eno/Cale, Funkstörung, M|A|R|R|S, Pan*American, +/-, and « rinôçérôse ». I've got albums called "f♯a♯∞", "!K7", "Blechsdöttir: The Nexus Phase", "( )", "99.9 F°", "Sånger från 63° N", "Ænima", "π", and "In‧No‧Sense? Nonsense!".
Even if my music server's filesystem and OS will allow all those in directory names, there's no way I'm going to take that approach, because then whenever I try to transfer the files anywhere--to put them on my phone, or simply for backup--I get endless problems with files being missed or software crashing. I know because I had such problems until I used a handy Linux utility to strip all the filenames and directory names down to 7-bit ASCII.
And even if those fancy filenames didn't cause problems copying, frankly I don't *want* files named "2 ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]]" and "}.}@}.@.}@}." on my hard drive just so I can get accurate information in Subsonic.
So yeah. I emphatically agree that Subsonic has to support ID3 tags as a source of artist/album/track information, not just file and folder names. By all means make it an optional feature and warn people that it will make the software slower.
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