2010-09-15, 17:30
I'm currently setting up my first installation of XBMC on Ubuntu and am thinking about how to organize my music folders to work best with XBMC.
XBMC automatically scans the media tags separately for each single file and creates the database navigation. It creates an album entry for every album name it finds which is correct from a technical point of view.
I have a lot of individual files that have complete meta data. Since these files are individual (often just 1 or 2 files from an album) I wouldn't consider these as an album. I end up with a very long list of albums with many I don't recognize by name.
For me an album is defined not only by it's name but also by all of it tracks. What I would like to have is all (complete) albums in the album list and individual tracks in a track and artist list.
I do not want to remove the album meta-data from the individual files as it allows to download cover art.
I can think of several ways to distinguish full album from individual tracks:
Is this possible somehow? I guess variant 3 could be easily defined by a regular expression.
Is there a general best-practice guide on how-to organize music? I found one for videos at lifehacker.com.
XBMC automatically scans the media tags separately for each single file and creates the database navigation. It creates an album entry for every album name it finds which is correct from a technical point of view.
I have a lot of individual files that have complete meta data. Since these files are individual (often just 1 or 2 files from an album) I wouldn't consider these as an album. I end up with a very long list of albums with many I don't recognize by name.
For me an album is defined not only by it's name but also by all of it tracks. What I would like to have is all (complete) albums in the album list and individual tracks in a track and artist list.
I do not want to remove the album meta-data from the individual files as it allows to download cover art.
I can think of several ways to distinguish full album from individual tracks:
- album name matches folder name
- > 80% of all tracks of the album are available
- albums are stored in root folder A, while individual tracks are store in root folder B
Is this possible somehow? I guess variant 3 could be easily defined by a regular expression.
Is there a general best-practice guide on how-to organize music? I found one for videos at lifehacker.com.