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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.

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+1 from here too

Great work on it so far

+1 this is a must

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Yep, sometimes I just want to search by genre.

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 would like support for one of the autotagging programs out there. Especially one that uses audio id such as MusicBrainz

embedded album art ("covers") is already read by SS. Maybe sometimes the odd crude/broken tag from some blog hiccups, but generally i found SS reads all embedded covers.

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.

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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.

Hi !!

it's not subsonic issue !! Windows don't use "?" and "*" for filename. it's reverved for other thing...

you can if you use linux for "?" only I believe.

same thing for Mac OS.

Can't there be a hybrid solution? For example, use the folder names to index and then have it automatically replace the ones that have special characters.

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I don't have my music in artist\album\track format.
Simplify Media did it, also compilations where no issues...so its possible!

I'd love to have better tagging support - if only to allow Subsonic to implement auto-playlists and read (and write!) song ratings.