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Originally Posted by hellnick

Lyrics? Really? You want your N900 to be a karaoke machine too?

Originally Posted by hellnick

I think most non itunes users will have their music organised in a simple artist\album\song structure - when I use Rockbox I don't use the database as I prefer to browse that way and I have a lot of live recordings that tend to freak the database out a bit (Coltrane worked with a lot of people). How about if instinctiv devs agree to implement folder browsing and end users agree to spend a little time sorting out their tags (it really is very simple these days) to make sure that they get the most from using the application?

Originally Posted by HellFlyer

While portrait mode is good I would like to have option to set it in landscape mode as well

Originally Posted by erniadeldesktop

IMHO, first of all, many of us already have the mp3 ordered by folders. And not being able to add them this way is quite annoying.
The second example is if you have a folder with i.e. a compilation:Instead of losing ages by editing the id3 album tags and so on, adding the folder is the fastest way.
another reason, is that at least for me, I still have a lot of mp3 downloaded from napster, and whit really messy id3 tags.
4: is quite annoying seeing your favorite artist's songs splitted in many different lists couse you have "audioslave", "Audioslave", and "AUDIOSLAVE". Lists grow exponentially when spaces/other simbols are involved (ie depeche-mode, or red hot chili peppers).
Last one is: someone just hate searching in DBs. And this is exactly the reason why I'm not using your app.

Originally Posted by efebatistaarda

Press CTRL+SHIFT+R at the same time to switch to landscape-portrait

Originally Posted by peter@instinctiv.com

Unless there's a massive public outcry I'm going to politely ignore your argument (for now) -- not because it's a bad one -- I totally get it -- but I think there's a much better way of fixing this. Just fix the friggin metadata. As part of the mega update we're working on we'll be rolling out the ability to auto correct your tags (just as we fetch missing artwork). This seems to solve the problem you have AND (and this is the important part) it takes out the administrative chore of organizing your stuff manually by folders.

Originally Posted by nax3000

If you'll read my wall of text in the previous page, you'll see why "fixing the friggin metadata" is not really a viable option.

Originally Posted by hellnick

I don't really see why it would take months to fix the tags on your files - perhaps if you were introducing new tags like "length of lead singer's hair at time of recording" then the process might be a bit messy, but you'll find that the important data (artist, album, song, year, genre) is already available and easily accessible in teh internets. For a long time I didn't bother with tags either, then I started using Music IP mixer as I realised that I had tonnes of music on my server that I wasn't hearing because I was simply choosing stuff out of habit. Music IP mixer requires your music to be tagged so that it can create playlists of music that are similar or linked. The process of tagging the files took a couple of afternoons, but then this was on my main media server and there is a hell of a lot of stuff on there.


TLDR - tagging is worth the effort

Originally Posted by nax3000

The simple process of tagging artist - album - song is what's going to take a long time since I'd have to do over 1000 files individually. That's pretty self explanatory as to why it would take ages to do.