Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] More Suggestions

["A. S. Budden" <rhythmbox southparade vispa com>]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 02:40:12PM -0400, John Russell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 20:04 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:20 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 May 2004, John Russell wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Gah!  Please be very very careful when/if implementing any song
> > > > reorganizing code and please do make it the default and make sure there
> > > > is a warning box before anything is actually moved.
> > > >
> > > > I only say this because iTunes thought it was smarter than me and
> > > > reorganized my 22 GB classical music collection.  Some of the files were
> > > > not tagged well but were identified by the name of the file.  iTunes
> > > > changed the directory structure and renamed the files based on the tags.
> > > > Much information was irretrievably lost.  IMHO this feature would be
> > > > nigh impossible to implement without at least some results such as this.
> > > > Just be careful. Thanks.
> > > >
> > > Welcome to the club.
> > > Please join us.
> > > Here it was only 2 gigs of pop though.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Benjamin
> > 
> > I have taken the habit of only adding nicely tagged music to my library,
> > it's a lot of work, but your library looks very clean & sexy then ;)
> > 
> > Ruben
> > 
> 
> Oh sure, now you tell me!

A bit late joining the mailing list, but just thought I'd add my
comments to this thread.  Please please please don't let rhythmbox start
renaming my files.  I'm very happy with the way they're organised on
disk at the moment and if rhythmbox is going to start messing with them
then that will be enought for me to stop using rhythmbox.  I've used
iTunes on someone elses computer and it quickly annoyed me (it even
deleted some songs without me asking it to, which was REALLY
irritating).  If you must set up a system that reorganises files on
disk, then PLEASE make it optional with the default as off so that it
doesn't attack my directory structure before I tell it to.

Just my 10p

Al