Folder View Only?

[Peter StreamMagic]

(01-11-2015 12:42)tarnkappe Wrote:  In my case I have a problem with tagging because my music collection divides into two parts: One part is ripped from my CDs and all albums are cleanly tagged. Maybe I could work with tags if I only had this part.

But the second part are wildly copied tracks, unsorted, some tagged, others not, some tagged wrong or different. So navigating through the tags folder shows up much crap that I often do not want to see.

A second problem is, that some albums of the same artist are tagged different, but I keep them in the same artist folder. One example is Prince. He occurs as "Prince", "Prince & The Revolution", "Prince & the new power generation", and many other names. I want these albums to show up together in one list, so I am using the folder view and do not have any problem.

A system based on tags only works properly if tagging is done consistently.
Rubbish in is rubbish out.
Not that it is an easy task to perform, before you know you end up with 100+ genres or 10+ entries.
Nevertheless I think the Intelligent Browsing System MinimServer offers a fast and flexible way to search for whatever you want.
On my NAS/PC I do have a small folder structure, just to have some overview.
I recognize the "Prince Problem" .
In these cases I use different tags for album artist and artist.
Album artist would be tagged as "Prince & The Revolution"(as mentioned on the album)
Artist would be tagged as "Prince"; "The Revolution" (if the Revolution is also performing as a separate band) or "Prince"; "Prince & The Revolution" (if the Revolution is only performing with Prince)
If tagged this way you should find all "Prince"s albums without problems.

Peter.