<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Richard Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.e.morton@gmail.com">richard.e.morton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>I have over 18000 tracks and I use </p>
<p>Artist/<album or single name>/artist-album-track#-tracktitle</p>
<p>With meta data populated in id3<br>
Upsides it works with every application and allows album playback, easy to navigate.</p>
<p>Down sides changes requie chaning meta data and file structure/name</p>
<p>For instance there doesn't seem to be reliable data to provide artist names reliably, some times its:<br>
- flaming lips<br>
- the flaming lips<br>
- flaming lips, the</p>
<p>And that doesn't take into account capitalisation variances.</p><br></blockquote><div><br>Tagging is EXTREMELY important. I'm in the middle (I'm only in the 'B' range) of correctly tagging my music. It's a very long process, but I think it'll be worth it in the long run. Getting a tagging application that's full featured is difficult. I've been using EasyTag and it's cross platform. It works really well, except, it doesn't have the "Album Artist" tag. This is useful on those "Various" artist albums I mentioned in my message. This tag allows a music player (Songbird for instance) to group songs together by different artists that are on the same album. Very nice feature to have. There was a patch someone added to EasyTag that had this field, but I haven't tried it out. <br>
<br>Jim<br></div></div>