Re: [Banshee-List] Multiple Music Sets

[zekopeko <zekopeko gmail com>]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Michael.S.G. <OzFalcon bden org> wrote:
> I have just noticed in the Bugs (Fixed) that Banshee supports .mod (Tracker)
> files via gstreamer. This is great. But makes a Banshee limitation
> exasperated.
>
> How do others separate their music sets?
> Currently I use Play Lists to Separate my music "Types". This works only
> Just.
>
> We (I ) really need some sort of Set's separator similar to Audiobook
> extention.
>
> I would like to split my banshee DB (Same DB, Different "Sets") to this:
>
> 1. Modern music collection Albums.
> 2. Modern music collection Compilations.
> 3. Modern music collection Classic Hits (One big directory).
> 4. Audio books and the like.
> 5. Classical music collection Albums & Compilations.
> 6. Love song collection. (Many duplicates from Modern collection. But want
> to keep file structure AND Banshee entries separate.)
> 7. A game music set would be nice. (Lots of Unreal, Mech warrior etc music)
> 8. And I'd love to have a .Mod's set.
>
>
> Currently I have to set it up like this: (Big hack for the most part)
> eg.
> * Albums and Compilations are simply dumped together.  Works ok.
>
> * I have to separate Classic hits directory by setting "Artist" to "Various
> Classics" and then make a play list based on that.
>
> * Love song collection. Not sure how to get this in cleanly. Setting
> "Artist" to "Various Lovesongs" for all 40 albums would be painful - And
> also a bad Idea to lose that metadata info just to "Separate" the sets. It
> remains unused.
>
> *  Classical collection. Same problem as Love song collection. In the Intrim
> I have simply used the 101 Classical Hits albums (4cds) and set "Artist" to
> "Various Classical" to import into play list.
>
>
>
> Q. Why set "Artist" to "Various yada yada"?
> A. I can simply scroll down to "V" artist entries and drag to make a music
> set list.
>
> This is handy when current WIP on your mp3 collection requires re-creating
> your banshee DB from scratch to clean up older now defunct entries. But
> doing so deletes your play list sets. So a simple and quick method of
> re-creating music sets was needed.
>
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Are you using Smart Playlists? They appear perfect for your needs.