[mythtv-users] 0.25 Music

[Scott & Nicole Harris]

>>> I really fail to see the issue here - if you give your music sensible
>>> metadata as you rip it, it's there....if you buy from legal sources,
>>> it's there...not sure where you've got all this untagged music from?
>>
>> Sounds like you're implying that he may have got his music from dubious
> >sources. He may have just ripped his own CDs and not tagged them.
>
>Not implying that at all - I just don't think it's a big deal to tag
>CD's as you rip them, particularly since you've got pretty good odds
>of it matching one of the music databases.
>
>If you're ripping vinyl it's a slow process anyway, the few moments to
>type a few track names while you're splitting them doesn't really
>figure in...
>
>- Chris

I don't think your suggestion of using "Album Artist" will do much with 0.25 
(I could be very wrong).  The Navigation Tree is pre-filled with 
categories....All, Album, Artist, Rating.  Also, it may help a little with 
compilation albums, but it doesn't help much with all the individual songs 
that my wife has purchased from ITunes that she wants organize "Like X" and 
all the songs she's bought from Amazon that she want "Like Y".  I suppose 
ultimately metadata could be fudged to make things work out, but I'd hardly 
call that "sane" metadata...in fact, I'd call that kinda the opposite of 
"sane".  "sane" metadata to me is ACCURATE metadata, not a bunch of crap I 
had to make up to get it to fit my players restrictions imposed by someone 
who decided that's the best way for me (especially [as mentioned earlier], 
folders have been around since the dawn of computing and are as simple as it 
gets to create a hierarchy of data).

Also, none of this allows me to just navigate to Kangaroo Cry and just play 
it.  I don't do playlists, never have, [hopefully] never will.  I have 
always been a jump around and listen to individual songs on whims, or entire 
albums in the background type.