Re: [Banshee-List] Album completeness

[Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com>]

I would recommend using more open formats like, eg, Gzip and Vorbis.

On 20 January 2011 22:47, Michael.S.G. <OzFalcon bden org> wrote:
> You mean having the albums as one big file (Tracks merged into one)?
> aka .flac with .cue sheets.
>
> Looking at the http://album.sf.net site.....
> (I Don't agree with the website's "Why:" on most points actually!)
>
> However, It seems a pretty good idea on the face of it, Using the easy
> traversed .zip archive.
> And you effectively keep your tracks as separate individual .mp3's still.
>
> The upsides:
> The larger zip files are better for larger clusters sizes of todays storage
> mediums.
>
> The Downsides:
> It add's a layer of complexity that becomes a pain in the ass when your
> managing/maintianing
> you music archive. ie. Just a random selection of mp3's to listen too
> becomes a real pita.
> You never really know whats in that archive until you open it. Checking lots
> of albums takes longer.
> Not sure how resilient .zip's are to a bad sector..... But if they are in a
> Solid archive your in trouble.
> The code to handle these archives would have to be written into not only
> Players, But Tag editors as well.
>
>
> Oz.
>
>
> On 21/01/11 08:41, troels wrote:
>>
>> I'm also wishing for album-orientation instead of track-orientation, from
>> a
>> storage point of view. All these many individual track files fragments the
>> disk drive and the time it takes to backup or mirror your music collection
>> would be half the time if albums was stored as such (if your music
>> collection originates from albums that is). I made this crude presentation
>> a
>> while back, http://album.sf.net
>> Maybe this concept is compatible with yours Dougal, some common ground
>> could
>> be found?
>> I may be prepared do some work on this, to get .album support in Banshee.
>> I
>> know C# well but I'm not familiar with the Banshee code nor with GtkSharp
>> nor with gstreamer but I could probably learn. Proof of concept would be
>> to
>> see Banshee play such an .album file. Initially the files can be produced
>> by
>> hand but eventually good tools to convert to and fro will be needed, maybe
>> from inside Banshee.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Troels K
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/users/troelsk
>> http://www.wxcommander.com
>
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