Re: [Muine] My own little rant

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 19:27 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> Oops - misread your mail.  Yea, they do break when in the same dir.  But
> I think the chances of people having whole albums in the same dir are
> slim, and therefore a fair trade-off.

My realworld experiences differ.
I take it you've never shared music with an itunes user?
iTunes stores all files in the one directory, and when you get 700 songs
off your mates in one directory, then you don't sort them into seperate
ones.

It would also be common for someone to have a few songs off albums in
the one directory.

Neiother of these quite common situations Muine is 100% working in.

> > But I see that basically Muine is only going to work for people who
> > follow the Jorn Baayen school of sorting. Which is fine, but will
> > defintely limit your userbase.
> 
> So be it. :P
> 
> > > > I don't see the difference in your two positions, or does Easytag not do
> > > > anything automatically?
> > > 
> > > Easytag doesn't do anything automatically ..
> > 
> > Yeah, since the time I asked that I looked at the Easytag website?
> > Holy fuck, what is that monstorsity? I take it the "Easy" in the title
> > is for Easy as in "Not very easy" at all, but that NotVeryEasyTag was
> > too long a title? That program should *not* be recommended for anything,
> > except for "What programs do you recommend that we do not recommend for
> > anything, EVER?"
> 
> I do agree it is a total monstrosity, however it *is* the best tagging
> app I've used so far.  This is not a compliment for all the other
> taggers out there.  Someone ought to be able to do better ..
> 
> Jorn
> 
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