Re: [Banshee-List] Album completeness

["Michael.S.G." <OzFalcon bden org>]

You mean having the albums as one big file (Tracks merged into one)?
aka .flac with .cue sheets.

Looking at the http://album.sf.net site.....
(I Don't agree with the website's "Why:" on most points actually!)

However, It seems a pretty good idea on the face of it, Using the easy 
traversed .zip archive.
And you effectively keep your tracks as separate individual .mp3's still.

The upsides:
The larger zip files are better for larger clusters sizes of todays 
storage mediums.

The Downsides:
It add's a layer of complexity that becomes a pain in the ass when your 
managing/maintianing
you music archive. ie. Just a random selection of mp3's to listen too 
becomes a real pita.
You never really know whats in that archive until you open it. Checking 
lots of albums takes longer.
Not sure how resilient .zip's are to a bad sector..... But if they are 
in a Solid archive your in trouble.
The code to handle these archives would have to be written into not only 
Players, But Tag editors as well.


Oz.


On 21/01/11 08:41, troels wrote:
> I'm also wishing for album-orientation instead of track-orientation, from a
> storage point of view. All these many individual track files fragments the
> disk drive and the time it takes to backup or mirror your music collection
> would be half the time if albums was stored as such (if your music
> collection originates from albums that is). I made this crude presentation a
> while back, http://album.sf.net
> Maybe this concept is compatible with yours Dougal, some common ground could
> be found?
> I may be prepared do some work on this, to get .album support in Banshee. I
> know C# well but I'm not familiar with the Banshee code nor with GtkSharp
> nor with gstreamer but I could probably learn. Proof of concept would be to
> see Banshee play such an .album file. Initially the files can be produced by
> hand but eventually good tools to convert to and fro will be needed, maybe
> from inside Banshee.
>
> Greetings,
> Troels K
>
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