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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re[2]: Patch - virtual file structuresRe[2]: Patch - virtual file structures
From: Eric Linenberg <elinenbe_at_umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 20:53:18 -0400 What I don't understand is the reason behind creating our own format? What about windows shortcut format, or the symbolic link in unix/linux? -eric MOQ> 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. MOQ> One thing that would make this a lot more attractive would be an easy to MOQ> use too for creating the virtual dir files. I'm thinking of a tool (on a MOQ> WinDoze box and/or Mac) that would scan the .mp3 files, and create the MOQ> virtual dirs based on the ID3 tags. MOQ> Now THAT would be powerful. MOQ> I don't really see how this idea of virtual dirs will be very exciting MOQ> without some sort of automated tool to create them. At last check, I have MOQ> slightly over 8600 song on my Player -- way too many to catalog by hand. MOQ> I do make sure that each and every ID3 tag is correct before I copy it on MOQ> to the Player, so an automated scan would certainly make sense for me. MOQ> Michael Received on 2003-06-09 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |