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submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With lyrics support Folder play

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is folder play?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A music player which "just plays whatever is in a directory". Very handy for people having a media folder with artist folders and album subfolders. For the type of people, like myself, who focus more on tidy and disciplined storage of files instead of managing ID3 metadata etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait don't most players have such a feature?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It seems like a no-brainer but actually no.

Quick test would be for example if there are:

at the beginning of the music library a lot of "no artist name" "no album name" entries, so the foldername isn't used at all.
a lot of artist with their own entry with just one album and one song because the actual albumartist collaborated on one song with them and the mp3 resides in the same folder but they got split in the library.
if the player doesn't show music which isn't part of Playlist.

So my conclusion is their are even 3 types and corresponding mangement:

Folder based requires file management
Meta data based requires tag management
Playlist based requires Playlist management

Often players make combinations also I guess.