[mb-users] extending the tagger for music organization

[Alan]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 09:50:09AM +0100, Chris B wrote:
> 2008/7/15 Adam Golding <adamgolding at gmail.com>:
> > For iTunes, there is iTunes folder watch to do this.  HOWEVER:
> >
> > if a file is renamed for any reason, database specifici info like song
> > ratings, album ratings, and playcounts is lost.
> 
> > This is all especially important because using iSproggler with iTunes and
> > iPod is currently the only way I can find to scrobble musicbrainz ids (as
> > opposed to mere tag fields) from a portable device.
> 
> might be stating the obvious here, but the simple solution is to not
> set picard to rename/move files if you're using itunes :) there
> doesn't seem to be much point seeing as itunes does a perfectly good
> job of organising them itself by the metadata, and besides if you're
> using a library-based player like itunes you shouldn't need to even
> look at your music directory!

Yes and no... I have a laptop, two desktops and my wife's computer, all
of which point in a variety of different ways to the fileshare that
holds the "master" copies of all my music.  I'd really like the master
to be "correct" so I can access songs by hand or with a less tag-aware
program.  As with many apple products if you commit wholly to it you're
fine, but if you mix and match, the information isn't as accessible.

Regards,

Alan

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