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| | wrote on 18.06.15 at 09:38 | | I just starting using streamWriter, and I am very favorably impressed! It seems very powerful, yet easy to configure.
I may be missing something, in which case please clue me in. However, I find the program's policy of filing songs in folders according to the stream from which they were recorded to be of no utility to me. (If I should ever really care, that information is already tagged onto each file in any case.) Ideally I would like an option to have a separate folder for each artist and file by artist name.
I could even imagine a file hierarchy which includes genre above artists and album name below artist. Though genre and album may not be tagged onto the broadcasts themselves, this should be information the server could access before a song is filed. Is there some reason why the server cannot provide the tag values automatically for any song it knows about?
The above may be a bit ambitious. A simpler thing that would still help would be a Move option on the Saved Songs list. Then one could sort by Filename which would group artists, select a contiguous set by the same artist, and move the whole set to an artist folder in one step. Chasing them down in the multitude of folders by stream name is unnecessarily time consuming. (Indeed, without a feature to support filing by other criteria, the first thing I would do is to flatten the directory hierarchy so that all the files were in single folder. I can automate that, but there is a sense in which the Saved Songs list already effectively does this.) |
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