JSharp;237770 Wrote:
> Does Slimserver or any other player need to know the track name for
> purposes of displaying that information? Does it need the tag
> information for any other reason? If I were to choose a track saved
> on computer that had no tag information but to be played through
> Slimserver, would Slimserver still play track but show no meaningful
> information in its display?
My CD player in the car plays CD's of mp3's... useful for cramming 10
hours of music onto a disc. It reads tags for display.
Slimserver wants (but does not need... more below) tags for display and
sorting. How do you know what album "01 Track01.flac" belongs to? What
else would you want it to display on your screen? If you are content
with the display looking like poop (ie, "Track01.flac") and with
confusing browsing ("why is everything filed under unknown artist? It
should just KNOW this!"), then, sure, skip tags... but that would,
well, suck.
Tags are intended as being a cross-player method of passing information
about the contents of the file. Whether it is WMP, or iTunes or
Slimserver or my ancient PJBox, tags carry at least the album, artist
and track so all of them know what it is... It even passes to my car
stereo what it is playing.
Slimserver -does- have a "Guess Tags" function that lets it guess tags,
but it requires you be very precise in your naming and organizing
especially if you want it to handle anything more than
Artist/Track/Album. Genre, Year, Composer, Band are very useful for
some collections and trying to get those all crammed into path/file
would be icky.
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