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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Playlists, id3-tags, indexRe: Playlists, id3-tags, index
From: Linus G Larsson <lgl_at_leia.org>
Date: 24 Jun 2002 10:03:33 +0200 Well, yeah, obviously. I guess the indexing process could use song names to tag'em up, since it's usually pretty easy to decode that stuff from the filename. On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 20:19, Robert Hak wrote: > > I just want to make sure that I understand this. It would remain just as > an _option_ to sort this way correct? > > Basically... I know for sure that all my ID3 tags are not correct... and I > don't care. I am not going through all my files to clean them up ;) > > Rob > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Linus G Larsson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 11:17, Daniel Stenberg wrote: > > > Let me just check if I understand this. > > > > This basicly lets you browse all songs walking around in hierachies created > > by the id3 tags rather than how they are stored on disk? > > Exactly. > > > In the imaginary screen above, when you select 'Artist', you get a scrollable > > list of all artists you have on your disk, and when you select one of the > > artists you get a list with all songs by this particular artist? > > Yup. Or perhaps all albums by the artist first. > And also playlist-functionality based on id3-tag (song number), instead > of having to name your songs "01-artist-songname.mp3"... > > For instance, right now I put my files on the Archos like this: > Artist/Album/<index>-<artist>-<songname>.mp3 > and > Artist/Album/00-artist-album.m3u. > > This would make both the hierarchy and the album-playlist redundant, you > would just have to drop the mp3s anywhere and be good to go. > > > Yes, I would very much enjoy accessing my songs like that. It would as stated > > require that we index all songs and store the data in one (or more) > > "database(s)" for easy/fast access to allow such "tree browsing" of these > > "virtual file systems". > > Yes. Probably, the best way would be to enable the user to switch > between the usual directory/file-view and this kind of view. So, if you > just throw a couple of mp3s on the Archos without indexing first, you > can still access them (or any other files you've put there) but if you > then do the indexing, it will provide a more powerful interface like the > iPod's. Best of both worlds! > > The indexing would read all (new) files' id3-tags, index it, read all > playlists and index them... No matter where you choose to put the files, > you'll still be able to get to them immediately, with a number of access > methods. > > Regards, > Linus > > > > ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+=== > Robert E. Hak > http://orion.ramapo.edu/~rhak > ===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+===+=== > > "Yoda Loves Me." > - !!!SRINI : http://www.unamerican.com > > Received on 2002-06-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |