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<blockquote data-quote="tourettes" data-source="post: 518157" data-attributes="member: 10858">What comes to the 3rd party music plugin, I see no reason why someone shoudn't implement such. There are lot of missing features in the included one. Just I would like to propose that no one is trying to reinvent the wheel and start to use something as stupid as file names as the source for metadata for music files when there is a good, more robust &amp; standard way to handle it.Just think following use cases (top of my head)<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> AC/DC&nbsp; &lt;-- / is not a valid file name char</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 01. Metallica - ...And Justice for All - The Frayed Ends of Sanity&nbsp; &lt;-- what is the band, album and track? The order can be quite different when you download the file from a different source so it is impossible to detect it automatically (and you will have to rename all the files to match the specific notation, which would require much less work when done with tagger as it would just use the song order in that case to be able to detect the whole CD content of the internet)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Apulanta - 07 - Aivan kuin kaikki muutkin - 007 &lt;-- is 007 track name or the 07?</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Therapy? - Pleasure Death&nbsp; &lt;-- again ? is not a valid char in filenames </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul"> : is quite common char used in sing titles, and it is not allowed in filenames </li>
</ul>So, using filenames as the metadata source places some restrictions (that artists doesn't have when naming their art) and also it requires actually more work to rename the files as it is impossible to write heuristic code that would be fool proof when it comes to detecting the metadata from the filenames.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tourettes, post: 518157, member: 10858"] What comes to the 3rd party music plugin, I see no reason why someone shoudn't implement such. There are lot of missing features in the included one. Just I would like to propose that no one is trying to reinvent the wheel and start to use something as stupid as file names as the source for metadata for music files when there is a good, more robust & standard way to handle it. Just think following use cases (top of my head) [list] [*] AC/DC <-- / is not a valid file name char [*] 01. Metallica - ...And Justice for All - The Frayed Ends of Sanity <-- what is the band, album and track? The order can be quite different when you download the file from a different source so it is impossible to detect it automatically (and you will have to rename all the files to match the specific notation, which would require much less work when done with tagger as it would just use the song order in that case to be able to detect the whole CD content of the internet) [*] Apulanta - 07 - Aivan kuin kaikki muutkin - 007 <-- is 007 track name or the 07? [*] Therapy? - Pleasure Death <-- again ? is not a valid char in filenames [*] : is quite common char used in sing titles, and it is not allowed in filenames [/list] So, using filenames as the metadata source places some restrictions (that artists doesn't have when naming their art) and also it requires actually more work to rename the files as it is impossible to write heuristic code that would be fool proof when it comes to detecting the metadata from the filenames. [/QUOTE]

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