Information Files - Experience and Suggestion

[Oliviander]

(23-05-2021 11:56)simbun Wrote:  If it's really going to prove a problem for you, could you create a symbolic link for MinimServer called 'booklet.pdf' that points to your 'booklet-this-is-an-old-directoryname.pdf'?
It would be trivial to script it for all your information files (that look like "booklet*.pdf"), but you'd just need to be careful how any backup/sync software treated them.

Thanks for the suggestion.
But my problem is actually not a technical one but a mass problem.

I already have thousands of CDs ripped and tagged in library
and as tagging is rather easy for Pop Jazz etc. I have completed that part

Classical CDs are another beast so I am still far behind.

And as I am not always in the mood for tagging
I have a parallel folder Structure for tagged and untagged files.

There I sit with I guess someting like

3000 CDs ripped and tagged
1000 CDs ripped but not tagged manually
(these are mostly classical CDs with not very usable
automatic tagging so I search them by folder view)
and at least 1500 classical CDs still waiting to be ripped.

For most of them I don't have a booklet file.

But now I am beginning to buy downloads too
and only If they have a booklet with them.
If I download them at HiResAudio they have a booklet attached
withe the file name
"booklet-nameofthealbum.pdf"
which I find quite usable.
(I have no idea how this is handled by other download portals,
but I can imagine that this might be handled quite similar)

I really don't have a problem to rename the file once
in the moment of the download.
But in most cases I have to rename the AlbumName
in a later step when tagging an Album.
But in this step I am usually not aware wether ther is a booklet file
or not so I will forget that more often than not.

Therefore as a failsafe I rather
rename the booklets
all to booklets.pdf
But the uneasyness of having many
files with the same name in my library exists.

Ok I could (and will) try to circumvent this by
your suggestion of symbolic links
but as a mass solution inside of a library
it also feels not quite right for me.

@Simon
Until now I didn't have any pdfs in my music library,
so your concern that there might be more than one file
beginning with
"booklet - "
in one folder seems rather bizarre to me.

Bit if this really occurs then just take any af the files:
I don't think that they would be named like that without a reason,
so even if the result would not be predictable
it should neither be wrong nor pointless.

I would even suggest to use any existing pdf file in the folder
as an information file for the album if no other criterias are met.
And I guess this would do it for most users.

(Ok i know this is not your thinking and I am actually
glad that this is so: because if not,
minimserver would not be what it is. )