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<blockquote data-quote="Requiem" data-source="post: 1017391" data-attributes="member: 117808"><p>Correct, currently there's no way to set this in database view modes. If I want to stick with my folder structure, I have to use directory based view, which does not show all fanart and is incredlbibly slow on large directories.</p><p>I'd think that it should not take too much additions to the existing database structure to show mulltiple root folders. And if for each the database view mode (list, covers etc) would be saved separate, this would be great too.</p><p> </p><p>Examples:</p><p>1. You have a lot of single tracks by various artists, not belonging to albums. In database view they all become distributed all over your music collection by albumartist name. I'd like to view this root folder as single files.</p><p>2. You have a large collection of albums. I'd like to order these in database view by albumartist.</p><p>3. You have a large collection of classical music, several "double" performances by different conductors etc. I'd like an extra folder with its own view mode for that root folder.</p><p>4. You have a folder for your childrens music. I'd like to have these in a seperate folder and view so they don't get mixed up with my other music.</p><p>5. You have a folder with audiobooks, which don't follow tags as they are used for music. You want another root folder and directory structure view for that.</p><p>6. You have a folder four your Movie OST's , you want them to show seperately...</p><p> </p><p>etc...</p><p> </p><p>Hope my intention is clear. Even if you rape your MP3 collections tags, there's no way to easily structure your collection in database mode.</p><p>Another solution (but not as smart) would be caching the directory structure to speed things up, but that has already been refused with hint to the database view mode in another thread.</p><p> </p><p>I still think this is a good idea and should not take excessive additions to the existing database structure (I imagine it being 2 additional values; one for the directory and one for the view mode) plus config options...while it is a great addition to the functionality of the music module.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Requiem, post: 1017391, member: 117808"] Correct, currently there's no way to set this in database view modes. If I want to stick with my folder structure, I have to use directory based view, which does not show all fanart and is incredlbibly slow on large directories. I'd think that it should not take too much additions to the existing database structure to show mulltiple root folders. And if for each the database view mode (list, covers etc) would be saved separate, this would be great too. Examples: 1. You have a lot of single tracks by various artists, not belonging to albums. In database view they all become distributed all over your music collection by albumartist name. I'd like to view this root folder as single files. 2. You have a large collection of albums. I'd like to order these in database view by albumartist. 3. You have a large collection of classical music, several "double" performances by different conductors etc. I'd like an extra folder with its own view mode for that root folder. 4. You have a folder for your childrens music. I'd like to have these in a seperate folder and view so they don't get mixed up with my other music. 5. You have a folder with audiobooks, which don't follow tags as they are used for music. You want another root folder and directory structure view for that. 6. You have a folder four your Movie OST's , you want them to show seperately... etc... Hope my intention is clear. Even if you rape your MP3 collections tags, there's no way to easily structure your collection in database mode. Another solution (but not as smart) would be caching the directory structure to speed things up, but that has already been refused with hint to the database view mode in another thread. I still think this is a good idea and should not take excessive additions to the existing database structure (I imagine it being 2 additional values; one for the directory and one for the view mode) plus config options...while it is a great addition to the functionality of the music module. [/QUOTE]
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