Information Files - Experience and Suggestion

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(24-05-2021 08:43)Oliviander Wrote:  But the uneasyness of having many
files with the same name in my library exists.

Out of interest, are there any grounds for your concern, as that seems to be the sticking point here, and could they not be adressed in another way?

Following your logic, you must have embedded album art and all your music filenames must comprise at the very least: tracknumber, album, artist, title and subtitle otherwise they wouldn't be unique either.

I hate long filenames within my music library as they're completely unnecessary (although this wouldn't be the case if I had to browse by folder), so just have discnumber.tracknumber.flac, and have routines in foobar to make sure they're in the correct folder structure (driven by tags), then have other QA routines to make sure that each folder has folder.jpg e.t.c.

Short filenames also help with RAM consumption, which probably isn't much of a problem nowadays (with cheap RAM), but was many moons ago when I used Sonos (which had a 65k limit depending on the length of the filenames).