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Plasma Active Three releasedPlasma Active Three releasedPosted Oct 17, 2012 22:35 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Plasma Active Three released by lambda Parent article: Plasma Active Three released
The remaining columns form the tag hierarchy. The first is Genres, the next Artists, and then there is a list of songs grouped by Album, then sorted by number within the album.As an aside, it is hard to imagine just how worthless this is for classical music. With the exception of iPods old enough to run Rockbox on, the whole line of players is simply useless for classical music. Let's see, I have three recordings of the Goldberg Variations, the two by Gould and one other -- and what does the iPod's cruddy built-in non-free software do? It lumps them all into one, if I'm very lucky, or gives them all the same name and does not differentiate between recordings, otherwise: last I saw it didn't even provide a way to distinguish between composer and performer, let alone multiple performances of the same work. If I'm *very* lucky it keeps the variations within each performance in the right order, otherwise they get jumbled up as well. How helpful. (And as for including things like the opus number(s) of the works, just forget it.)
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Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 18, 2012 6:28 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]
Rockbox doesn't only work on old players. It runs on current Sandisk devices.
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 18, 2012 8:33 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
The OP (GP) was talking about ipod / itunes specifically.
Plasma Active Three released Posted Oct 18, 2012 8:38 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
This is exactly why I use folder players (and refuse to buy any Apple product). I still have a problem choosing sane folder names for classical music, that aren't hundreds of characters long. But it's better than tagging.
What I've ended up doing is a composer directory; inside that, a performance/piece directory; inside that, track files whose filenames describe only the piece and movement, not composer/performer. It mostly works, but some multi-composer discs require other treatment.
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