Information Files - Experience and Suggestion

[simoncn]

Thank you for explaining your situation in more detail. Although renaming the booklet file when you rename the album is an extra step that you might sometimes forget at first, I think it wouldn't be long before this became a familiar part of your workflow.

I checked a couple of dowloading services that I use. One produces filenames like albumname.pdf and the other produces filenames like albumname-booklet.pdf. The second of these would need an additional special case in any change to the booklet naming rules. There are probably a number of other conventions in use by other downloading services.

The present naming rules for booklets closely follow the naming rules for non-embedded artwork files. I would like to keep these rules as similar and consistent as possible. Adding more variations to the booklet file rules would be likely to trigger requests for similar changes to the artwork file rules.

For both artwork files and booklets, the rules are designed to allow multiple albums to be in the same folder if desired. If a new rule were added to allow a random match with any booklet*.pdf file in the folder (or any *.pdf file), a booklet file for a different album in the same folder might be selected.

My goal for the naming rules is clarity and consistency while supporting common use cases. I believe the current rules achieve this. It can be tempting to respond to every user request with a new option that satisfies the request but past experience has shown me that the downside of this approach is increased complexity that creates problems for the majority of users.