September 15, 2004
file naming
The wild and wacky world of file sharing has brought it to my attention just how many different and conflicting and confusing and ultimately annoying ways there are naming a simple file…
you could go for
the directory structure
/name of artist/album/track number - name of song
(I think that's my preferred choice, it's neat and simple -up to a point)
but if it's a file on it's own do you go for
artist_name - track number - title of track
or
track number - artist - track title
or
track title - artist -and ditch the track number.
do you use spaces (which some antiquated OSes baulk at) or -hyphens- or _underscores_ or CapitalsWithinTheTitle or do you use (brackets?) or even [square ones?]
I DO KNOW ONE THING -THAT ANYONE USING NOTHING BUT ALL CAPS NEEDS TO BE TAKEN OUT AND SHOT - THE MORONS
or th0se trYin8 hArd 2b "cl3v3r2" and "l33t" -they need a damn good shooting too.
Oh.and.i.really.hate.it.when.people.get.happy.with.the.full.stops.stop.it.with.the full.stops.
After all that Windows Media Player likes it's own way of going about things, as does WinAmp, as does iTunes -none of them compatable with one another. I do know that trusting any one of them to go through your system and organize everything for you is a sure route to disaster.
(On another point -I'm getting sick of having all these different programs on my 'puter that all pretty much do the same thing. Well, actually they all play the one single propriety file that the others don't -but then try desperately hard to do everything else. Real player (Ram and RM) should just stick to streaming files -but now it's an obscenely bloated CD, MPG playing cd-burning, web browsing monster, WMP (wma and wmv) as well, iTunes too (acc)... oh you get the idea). Bloat bloat bloat, compete compete, and my poor computer groans under the strain of it all. I won't mention that each has their own propriety DRM system -because I'm likely to get hysterical by then.
Sighs.
Posted by groc on September 15, 2004 03:27 AM
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AUTHOR: terreus
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DATE: 09/15/2004 04:13:29 PM
I use: track number - artist - track title - album name (if it's needed) mainly because that's what I've always used, and I thought was the correct way.
For all misnamed files that I've downloaded or that other software has named incorrectly (or not my way) I use a little program called TagScanner from X Development for renaming MP3/OGG/MP+ files, using TAG information.
wibbled by: Anonymous at December 13, 2004 11:44 PM