BloodSugar00
Headphoneus Supremus
- Joined
- Apr 14, 2008
- Posts
- 1,794
- Likes
- 12
Hi,
my external HD has recently become faulty-unusable-broken, and, unbacked up- yes, rookie mistake though I had been planning on aquiring a 2nd drive to behave as back-up asap-, my entire music archive, both .FLAC and mp3 (320kbps) are currently inaccessible and potentially lost (need to have drive extracted and tested by sata connection, first, and, if damaged go from there; with considering recovery services/tricks/tools etc or, simply, putting it down to experience, getting a new one in and starting again).
However, my interest in this is general, anyway, and independent of the above ,but it will bear greater significance to me if I do have to write off my drive and start compiling my music archive/s again.
My experience with DAPs is, that, although you may create multiple fields for same field type- and I have, until up to this point, for my own reasons of accuracy and desire to capture certain details about releases and/or out of my want to best define the music (even after I knew DAPS didn't process more than one)-, they do not have the ability/capacity to process such, only taking the first varietal you supply it with in the file and/or folder tagging. In other words, you can tag an album folder/group of audio files to have more than one genre via independent, separate genre fields created when tagging, each filled with a different genre/style. All the DAPs I own and/or have tried- I have side-tested numerous DAPS on extended opened-box returns periods from Advancedmp3Players.co.uk-, have only been ale to deduce and process into their library and/or search database the first of any field type entry. The Daps I've tried and found this with are the ipod classic 6.5G, Samsung YP-P2, Sony NWZ-A829, Sony NWZ-S639 and NWZ-S739 (same device, really), Sandisk Sansa Fuze, Cowon D2 and Ipod Nano 4G. [I realise you can put multiple genres/styles into the same field, separated by semi-colons for instance, however, this means the DAP will only process all entered into this field as one genre and will not/cannot segregate them so, to do this, is essentially pointless as you now make the random play by genre utterly useless].
Obviously, the idea of having a DAP or digital audio player/source of some sort, that is able to process multiple field type entries in the tagging of an album folder/group of audio folders would be ideal. I've imagined being able to random play by genre/style with this in place and it would be awesome; you can find a musically and stylistically diverse and interwoven artist like Frank Zappa, say his complex and genre hopping epic, Lather, in art rock, experimental rock, classical/modern classical, jazz fusion etc. The same applies for someone like Hermeto Pascoal or Buckethead. Guys who dip their toes in so many pools and/or mix it up, who are genuinely creatively and experimentally inspired. Artists who can maybe be best decribed as unclassifiable or avantgarde at times. To have these such artists, as well as any others, properly processed in this way by a digital audio player would be simply fantastic to me!
Of course this doesn't just apply to genre but to any field type. Others include artist/album artist, composer, conductor, year and comment, potentially.
Anyone know of any DAPs or digital audio devices that provide this, or maybe an alternative firmware such as Rockbox (I have no experience with this at all though I have most definately heard of it, obviously).
Going back to how I opened this post, if not and I have to start re-ripping my CD collection all over again, I may not bother capturing such in my tagging.
Thanks in advance
,
Steve
my external HD has recently become faulty-unusable-broken, and, unbacked up- yes, rookie mistake though I had been planning on aquiring a 2nd drive to behave as back-up asap-, my entire music archive, both .FLAC and mp3 (320kbps) are currently inaccessible and potentially lost (need to have drive extracted and tested by sata connection, first, and, if damaged go from there; with considering recovery services/tricks/tools etc or, simply, putting it down to experience, getting a new one in and starting again).
However, my interest in this is general, anyway, and independent of the above ,but it will bear greater significance to me if I do have to write off my drive and start compiling my music archive/s again.
My experience with DAPs is, that, although you may create multiple fields for same field type- and I have, until up to this point, for my own reasons of accuracy and desire to capture certain details about releases and/or out of my want to best define the music (even after I knew DAPS didn't process more than one)-, they do not have the ability/capacity to process such, only taking the first varietal you supply it with in the file and/or folder tagging. In other words, you can tag an album folder/group of audio files to have more than one genre via independent, separate genre fields created when tagging, each filled with a different genre/style. All the DAPs I own and/or have tried- I have side-tested numerous DAPS on extended opened-box returns periods from Advancedmp3Players.co.uk-, have only been ale to deduce and process into their library and/or search database the first of any field type entry. The Daps I've tried and found this with are the ipod classic 6.5G, Samsung YP-P2, Sony NWZ-A829, Sony NWZ-S639 and NWZ-S739 (same device, really), Sandisk Sansa Fuze, Cowon D2 and Ipod Nano 4G. [I realise you can put multiple genres/styles into the same field, separated by semi-colons for instance, however, this means the DAP will only process all entered into this field as one genre and will not/cannot segregate them so, to do this, is essentially pointless as you now make the random play by genre utterly useless].
Obviously, the idea of having a DAP or digital audio player/source of some sort, that is able to process multiple field type entries in the tagging of an album folder/group of audio folders would be ideal. I've imagined being able to random play by genre/style with this in place and it would be awesome; you can find a musically and stylistically diverse and interwoven artist like Frank Zappa, say his complex and genre hopping epic, Lather, in art rock, experimental rock, classical/modern classical, jazz fusion etc. The same applies for someone like Hermeto Pascoal or Buckethead. Guys who dip their toes in so many pools and/or mix it up, who are genuinely creatively and experimentally inspired. Artists who can maybe be best decribed as unclassifiable or avantgarde at times. To have these such artists, as well as any others, properly processed in this way by a digital audio player would be simply fantastic to me!
Of course this doesn't just apply to genre but to any field type. Others include artist/album artist, composer, conductor, year and comment, potentially.
Anyone know of any DAPs or digital audio devices that provide this, or maybe an alternative firmware such as Rockbox (I have no experience with this at all though I have most definately heard of it, obviously).
Going back to how I opened this post, if not and I have to start re-ripping my CD collection all over again, I may not bother capturing such in my tagging.
Thanks in advance
Steve
