Browsing and organizing USB media library is very tedious

[Steve Woodhouse]

I would rather have an SSD but large ones are expensive. My drive is only half full at the moment but if I hadn't converted all the live stuff it would be a lot closer to full. My backup drive is only 2GB and so was the main drive when I started converting to MP3.

What music are you listening to?

 

[slartibartfast]

What music are you listening to?

Mainly CD rips and Vinyl rips. Although I download lots of live stuff I very rarely listen to it. I have listened to a few of the recent David Gilmour concerts though.

 

[slartibartfast]

I agree SSD is sensible for the OS and database. Spinning disk for file storage on Raid 1 NAS.
The only reason I'd opt for SSD storage would be if the server was physically within earshot.

I can hear my hard drive spin up before music starts. I used to have the server in the spare bedroom connected to a powerline adapter but transfer speed when copying albums to the library was unbearably slow. It's not particularly fast now so another reason to use SSD. A lot of LMS users seem to be using SSD now.

 

[simbun]

I’d offer a recommendation - give it a try.

Most of us tried it in the 90s

 

[d6jg]

Most of us tried it in the 90s

I know we disagree about UPnP vs LMS but we agree about this!

 

[Hazenhart]

FWIW, I'm running a NAS with 8 TB mechanical drives (2x WD Red 8 TB in RAID1). It serves all my music via Minim server, all FLACs, some high res up to 24/192, and my NAS even serves high bitrate video (h.265 up to 20mbps) to my TV monitor. There is zero playback lag with the FLACS over the house network wifi or ethernet. The NAS is downstairs next to the main gigabit switch, so I never hear it spin up.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

So, a question for other users.

Let's say you're a Beatles fan (not completely impossible, though feel free to replace this with other artists).

The Beatles have (depending on how you count them) 13 LPs, around 12 official compilations, 13-16 EPs, and 25 singles.

How do you tag these?

I mean with standard tagging, that'll just show up as 76 'albums'.

How do you tag them to differentiate?

 

[rccarguy]

So, a question for other users.

Let's say you're a Beatles fan (not completely impossible, though feel free to replace this with other artists).

The Beatles have (depending on how you count them) 13 LPs, around 12 official compilations, 13-16 EPs, and 25 singles.

How do you tag these?

I mean with standard tagging, that'll just show up as 76 'albums'.

How do you tag them to differentiate?

Easy. LMS, Releasetype tag

 

[d6jg]

RELEASETYPE=
Collection
EP
Single
Live
default is Album ie the studio albums

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Most of us tried it in the 90s

And you appear to have become so beholden to a half-arsed solution that you're unable to accept its limitations,

Don't get me wrong, if I could tag and view everything as I'd like to, I'd be all over it like a bad suit.

But tagging appears to be a less than adequate solution to a problem I already have sorted.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Easy. LMS, Releasetype tag

That's a screengrab, not an explanation.

And, from what I can see, it doesn't do the job. Oh, and it doesn't appear to be on WiiM.

Explain it to me.

 

[rccarguy]

That's a screengrab, not an explanation.

And, from what I can see, it doesn't do the job. Oh, and it doesn't appear to be on WiiM.

Explain it to me.

Just shown and told you. Yes it does the job. It literally does.

And yes it's playing on a Wiim Ultra right now, Pet shop boys.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

RELEASETYPE=
Collection
EP
Single
Live
default is Album ie the studio albums

That's just meaningless, condescending jargon.

In English please.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

Just shown and told you. Yes it does the job. It literally does.

And yes it's playing on a Wiim Ultra right now, Pet shop boys.

Nope. You've not explained it at all.

What tags are you using?

How do you view, search and sort by the relevant categories?

 

[d6jg]

That's just meaningless, condescending jargon.

In English please.

You asked how you’d tag files to reflect things. That is the answer. You set the RELEASTYPE tag to one of those values.

 

[rccarguy]

Nope. You've not explained it at all.

LMS, my music service scans the music, and for "releasetype" tag, if it has an entry it'll put those into each section of that artist. Here is an example

 

[simbun]

How do you tag them to differentiate?

You can't do it with WiiM indexing.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

You asked how you’d tag files to reflect things. That is the answer. You set the RELEASTYPE tag to one of those values.

You appear to have only 3 EPs in your entire collection.

And it's not clear that you have any singles.

Give me separate screenshots of all The Beatles singles, all The Beatles LPs, all The Beatles EPs, all The Beatles compilations, all The Beatles boxed sets.

Then we might be getting somewhere.

BTW, feel free to choose an artist other than The Beatles.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

You can't do it with WiiM indexing.

That's not an answer.

If the only defense of Folder View was "You can't go wrong with folder view", you wouldn't accept that, and rightly so.

 

[rccarguy]

You appear to have only 3 EPs in your entire collection.

And it's not clear that you have any singles.

Give me separate screenshots of all The Beatles singles, all The Beatles LPs, all The Beatles EPs, all The Beatles compilations, all The Beatles boxed sets.

Then we might be getting somewhere.

BTW, feel free to choose an artist other than The Beatles.

picard facepalm. I just showed you a screenshot with various types, singles, albums. Here I'll post it again.

It doesn't matter it's not the beatles. irrelevant.