[maemo-developers] What's wrong with folder browsing?

[From: nick loeve]

I use two 4gig SD cards. Once i stuffed them full of media canola-conf
would just take over my cpu ( i am taking a stab in the dark, that
this was the indexer) . I waited for quite a while, and even had to
charge my n800 again, and i still couldn't use it, as everything would
stop responding.

I just uninstalled it as i got sick of doing 'killall -9 canola-conf'
via xterm everytime my device slowed right down.

If there is anything i can do to help debug this, then let me know and
i will try again, but I am also using a modified kernel to support
SDHC cards, so I don't know if my debugging counts :)

Cheers

On 5/21/07, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/21/07, Karoliina Salminen <karoliina.t.salminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > ext Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> > >
> > >> Folder approach is intuitive, shared by all reasonable apps on all
> > >> platforms, doesn't waste anything and just works.
> > >>
> > >
> > > It does waste the users time (in the long run), which to me seems more
> > > important than the machines time.
> > >
> > It pretty much depends on the user and if there are mp3-tags present on
> > the files, I would like to have
> > both ways available because:
> > I happen to have a tag-messy music library (which is organized to
> > folders, which is not my fault - I have done a lots of work to make
> > compilations of various mp3-files I have got from my artist friends, but
> > the tags being inconsistent is the fault of
> > the author and encoder of the mp3-files) because my library consists of
> > mostly indie music done by
> > some friends. Obviously there are no mp3-tags on place and the files are
> > organized with
> > folders only (as the author of the file haven't been too interested to
> > put the tags on place especially
> > if the file is unfinished track that is just given out for
> > review-listening), playing full albums (which are
> > based on these files without mp3-tags or varying mp3-tags like Track 1
> > "Fin:Greenblue 1"
> > Track 2 "fin: Green blue 2" Track 3 "FIN: Blue Green3" Track 4
> > "Christian Worton:greenblue 4" Track 5 "Fin: Greenblue 5" Track 6:
> > "Unknown artist:Green Blue 6" ...
> > and so forth. This ends up being several artists and several albums on
> > system which blindly indexes the files based on the mp3 tags, which is
> > pretty problematic and which isn't my fault as listener and
> > it makes me pretty confused. The only solution currently to my
> > understanding, in media players only supporting
> > mp3-tag based organization is to play the files one by one which is not
> > so nice for listening to
> > background music.
> >
> > Now I could imagine a brilliant tool that would sort of solve this problem:
> > A program or script that would run on linux and which would go and scan
> > all the subfolders in the media
> > folder and put the tags to the mp3-files on place so that the album name
> > would be created from the folder name and the track name from the
> > filename. Obviously it should do this without re-encoding the files
> > (since re-encoding would degrade sound quality in lossy compression). If
> > such tool already exists, I would love to hear where I can get it, I
> > would really
> > need one since I can't really blame the various authors of my
> > mp3-collection since if I am getting better indie music than
> > commercial music is for free, I can't really complain, having
> > inconsistent mp3-tags is small issue taken in account that
> > the music is superb quality, glitches on tags, but no glitches on music!
>
> There are some tools:
>
> http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/
> http://easytag.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/gmusicbrowser
>
> Best regards.
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras
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