Re: [Banshee-List] Album completeness

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

Disregard this bit:

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


oz


On 21/01/11 09:47, Michael.S.G. wrote:
> 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
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/users/troelsk
> > http://www.wxcommander.com
>
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