Suggestion to avoid mandatory steps when browsing

[winxi]

(15-08-2012 19:43)bbrip Wrote:  Hi Simon,

I would tend to agree with psme here. folder structure should not have an impact on the way albums are being grouped whatsoever. I have a similar issue with some albums being split into multiple albums just because my (automated) folder creation by mp3tag is based on composers as primary criteria.

No big deal for me, but if I browse the library based on TAGS I don't really think Minim should second-guess album-structure based on folders.

bbrip

I also agree, as it is the natural expectation of the user that a tag-based server neglects the folder structure and filenames. I believe that there are many different folder structures used by different users, and some of them don't necessarily put a whole album into one single folder.

But I definately agree that it is important to split different albums which have the same album name incidentally.

Maybe it would be better to do it vice versa and use a [split] string in the foldername to indicate that this folder should be treated as a separate album instead of [part] indicating to merge folders. This would meet the users expectation and i think that [split] would be used in far less cases than [part].

Users who need [split] would consider it as a feature whereas users who don't need [split] wouldn't care.
With [part] users who don't care or just don't know about it (like me before) might consider this as a bug.