Slate8 wrote:If your folder structure & file names are accurate why not use something like Tag & Rename
http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm to tag your MP3s from them? Check out the "Get Tags from Filename" tab in that app. It's one solution anyway - more and more players seem to rely on good ID3 tags rather than file and folder names.
In other news, I got the latest update and also love the UI changes. The now playing screen is slick! Glad to see those "glass" buttons go. Keep up the good work.
I wish my folders and files were organized well enough to use automated ID3-populating tools. The folder structure is fairly meaningless (from an ID3 cataloging point of view) and varies in depth from 1 to 8 or 9 levels. In some cases, the levels denote the names of the people that curated the albums, in other cases, the folder names denote various ways of grouping the albums. There is absolutely no consistency in how the folders are named or structured. Ideally, yes, I would like to clean it all up, but, have nowhere near the time required for that.
At home, I use MediaMonkey - which lets me sort and play either by files/folders or by ID3-indexed data. MediaMonkey indexes using both, ID3 tags as well as file names - and this makes the Search feature very useful - granted, I get bogus results sometimes, but, I can still find things. Yes, most players are going the ID3 way - and nothing wrong with that; I just hope that at least a few good options like MediaMonkey and MadSonic remain that offer this flexibility/option.
MadEvil (the creator of MadSonic) very graciously (and quickly) added a "filesystem sort" option to MadSonic and this lets me browse using names of folders and files - just like in pre-4.7 Subsonic. I am not sure if the indexer in MadSonic crawls in names of folders and files in addition to ID3 tags... haven't had the time to test this out. But, the ability to browse by folder and filenames is very useful.
I hope this ability can be implemented in DSub as well.
Thanks in anticipation...
MediocreFred.