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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Patch - virtual file structuresRe: Patch - virtual file structures
From: Michael O'Quinn <michael_at_oquinn.info>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 17:40:44 -0700 (PDT) On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, BlueChip wrote: > > >>Isn't that better done with playlists? > >I think the interesting part is not so much the playing as the transparent > >browsing through an arbitrary directory hierarchy. I was thinking > >primarily of something similar to winamp's media library, or itunes, where > >one could locate a file by artist, genre, mood, or whatever. > > Get's my vote - I would love to have virtual dirs so that (for example) > Fleetwood Mac turn up under both "Blues" and "Fleetwood Mac" ..also.. each > compilation album would have it's files also show up under the specific artist > > I suppose its just a matter of whether you can see this new feature as an > improvement, or if you prefers to stick to old ways because they are familiar. One thing that would make this a lot more attractive would be an easy to use too for creating the virtual dir files. I'm thinking of a tool (on a WinDoze box and/or Mac) that would scan the .mp3 files, and create the virtual dirs based on the ID3 tags. Now THAT would be powerful. I don't really see how this idea of virtual dirs will be very exciting without some sort of automated tool to create them. At last check, I have slightly over 8600 song on my Player -- way too many to catalog by hand. I do make sure that each and every ID3 tag is correct before I copy it on to the Player, so an automated scan would certainly make sense for me. Michael Received on 2003-06-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |