Originally Posted by
dbarnby
Thank you, Oggy; it always a pleasure (and instructive) to hear from you. I'll need to study what you sent and learn from it; probably more questions later. One thing that jumped out at me in your last sentence is that your say:
"&*8230;simply with track names, and no tags: the music will play the same."
Aren't Track Names tags? The sentence implies not. Is there something I'm missing here?
1) I have a further "philosophical" question. Slowly I've come to understand (I think) that the structure and operation of network players generally is as follows (a & b below). Perhaps this issue has been specified before -- certainly I think it has been strongly implied &*8211; but I don't recall ever seeing it stated cleanly and directly with clear contrast between what the player is all about vs. what the File Explorer is all about. I hope I understand now and that a) and b) below have it right.
a) The fundamental, underlying structure of the music library is that it is a listing of TRACKS (not CD's). And, a set of tag values is associated with each track. In effect, it is a relational data base of tracks, and the player then slices and dices this data base according to the values of the various different tag "dimensions" (fields) as requested by the user. In other words, a track is the basic irreducible unit around which everything centers. (On the other hand, the structure of the File Explorer is an organization of CD's, which is established by the naming string.)
b) It is the dimension values associated with the individual track listings (and showing in the body of the screen) that are used by the Player to select music, not the values at the top of the screen -- although in some cases these are the same and even linked together. (Furthermore, it is the dimensions themselves &*8211; identifying the text boxes at the top of the screen -- that are employed by the Naming string to format the File Explorer.)
Do I understand this correctly?
If this is true, then since I want to select classical music by composer, it would seem that I must review the composer listed on each and every track in the body of the track listings, and change it manually if needed. Similarly, perhaps, I will need to do the same for the other tag dimensions if I want the player selection to function the way I want.
Is there a simpler way to handle this?