Re: Re: Media Servers

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxx>]

From: "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
> Being an ex DJ my music collection is 99.99% based around singles
and
> complilation albums. Everything else out there was designed for
"an album
by
> an artist" where all tracks are by the same artist. That does not
fit my
> collection at all.

Sounds like my collection really.  I get put off by the album/artist
thing.
I generally use the software that does this, and have a "various
artists"
artist for compilations, and singles sit with the albums.  Can be
cumbersome
though!

> I also wanted to be able to find and play any song within seconds so
the
> database has tightly controlled data which must be input manually
although
> once an artist has been entered once they can be reselected by typing
2 or
3
> characters and clicking on the name displayed.

Cool!

> The MP3 files are also "non conventional" in that the
filename is
something
> like 10602.mp3 and all the details are stored in the database not
MP3
tags.
>
> When it is eventually finished I will put a demo on a website and
possible
> make it available for download if I can find some way of assisting
the
input
> process by reading info from the tags.
>
> Everyone who has seen it is impressed by the features, just put off by
the
> thought of entering the data :-(

I can imagine, but few of mine are properly tagged anyway.  I'm
too
disorganised!

Andy



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