EddieE
Headphoneus Supremus
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[size=x-small]For me, I just don't get how people can stand living with ID3 tags as a principle means of organisation. They are a handy tool both for labelling and bespoke searching, but for everyday organisation they are awful.[/size]
[size=x-small]I use a naming structure on my folders which allows real alphabetic sorting. I don't want there to be half my music collection lumped under T (for "the"). But I don't want that naming structure on my artist tag - I want their name to be as it is spoken. [/size]
[size=x-small]So to use well known examples, for display purposes, on my tags, I want The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, but on my folders I want Beatles, The and Hendrix, Jimi so I can easily locate them like I would in a record store.[/size]
[size=x-small]And then for albums. For display purposes I want the album tags to read Abbey Road and Revolver because that is the name of the albums. But then, if I asked ID3 tags to show me my Beatles albums - Abbey Road is BEFORE Revolver and With The Beatles is after both of them - completely out of chronological order! So for my folder structure I would have them named 1963 - With The Beatles, 1966 - Revolver and 1969 - Abbey Road and then inside each artist folder I am greeted with a chronological list of all their albums I own.[/size]
[size=x-small]What about compilations? With ID3 Tag organisation that's an utter mess - you want to search by albums then its there but if (as it is easier in most cases) you have your main list as "artist" it is littered with dozens if not hundreds of artist names each with one or two songs taking up a line on the list each. Folder Structure - The album is just there alphabetically on your list, or you can have a various artists folder if you like with the albums inside.[/size]
[size=x-small]The point is, with folde structure browsing it is entirely up to the user how they organise their music. I still have full access to tag searching if I wanted to call up all tracks by an artist over 50 different compliations, or all the tracks of a certain Genre (and Foobar2k's recognition of unlimited Genres per track is very handy here), but for everyday browsing my music collection is organised like a record shop would organise it and everything is where I expect it to be. [/size]
[size=x-small]Different strokes for different folks but personally I just don't understand how anyone can bear to be tied and bound by ID3 tags.[/size]
[size=x-small]I use a naming structure on my folders which allows real alphabetic sorting. I don't want there to be half my music collection lumped under T (for "the"). But I don't want that naming structure on my artist tag - I want their name to be as it is spoken. [/size]
[size=x-small]So to use well known examples, for display purposes, on my tags, I want The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, but on my folders I want Beatles, The and Hendrix, Jimi so I can easily locate them like I would in a record store.[/size]
[size=x-small]And then for albums. For display purposes I want the album tags to read Abbey Road and Revolver because that is the name of the albums. But then, if I asked ID3 tags to show me my Beatles albums - Abbey Road is BEFORE Revolver and With The Beatles is after both of them - completely out of chronological order! So for my folder structure I would have them named 1963 - With The Beatles, 1966 - Revolver and 1969 - Abbey Road and then inside each artist folder I am greeted with a chronological list of all their albums I own.[/size]
[size=x-small]What about compilations? With ID3 Tag organisation that's an utter mess - you want to search by albums then its there but if (as it is easier in most cases) you have your main list as "artist" it is littered with dozens if not hundreds of artist names each with one or two songs taking up a line on the list each. Folder Structure - The album is just there alphabetically on your list, or you can have a various artists folder if you like with the albums inside.[/size]
[size=x-small]The point is, with folde structure browsing it is entirely up to the user how they organise their music. I still have full access to tag searching if I wanted to call up all tracks by an artist over 50 different compliations, or all the tracks of a certain Genre (and Foobar2k's recognition of unlimited Genres per track is very handy here), but for everyday browsing my music collection is organised like a record shop would organise it and everything is where I expect it to be. [/size]
[size=x-small]Different strokes for different folks but personally I just don't understand how anyone can bear to be tied and bound by ID3 tags.[/size]
