Winamp 20153/23/2023 I dislike the treatment of "Genre" by iTunes (and most everybody else). In some cases, these are one-to-many relations, as in the case of CD cat#s, where a CD sometimes has more than one cat#, and I have logged them all, or many-to-many as where a CD is co-branded by more than one record label, and again, I have logged this info in my iTunes DB with multiple key/value pairs, e.g. I am also a heavy user of the "Comments" field, which iTunes power users like myself have long used as a place to store the best approximation we have to custom database fields, using substrings of the form key="value". Jane Doe" as "Blow, Joe featuring Doe, Jane" - my credits read as on release, but sort logically. I sort people by surname first, and also do stuff like sorting "Joe Blow feat. Similarly, "Charlie Parker" and "Charly Parker" are the same person, and I use sort fields to remap them, without altering the way the credit reads on release. Since I don't want them intermixed, I use the sort fields to distinguish them. For example, the artist Egg is quite distinct from The Egg. I am a heavy user of every single one of the Sort fields in iTunes. m4a files are big, and (b) my car stereo knows how to interface with it, so I can operate it directly from the stereo interface (including seeing the album cover art, which is nice). I would like to put my media library on a high-capacity expandable NAS with RAID.Īs a portable player, I use an iPod Classic 160G unit, because (a) it has the largest capacity, and. It looks like JRiver can probably handle the load, as it seems to have been built on a relational DB, rather than the dopey structure that iTunes uses. Now that very large capacity drives have become cheap, I'd like to finally merge these various libraries. In this way, I've accumulated a number of offline libraries on external disks as well as whatever current one is on my internal drive. I have ripped multiple terabytes of music files, which iTunes cannot handle in a single library, so I periodically cull from my hard drive onto a backup disk, so that I can continue. I'm contemplating switching from iTunes to JRiver, but before I undertake this pretty massive task, I have a few things I'd like to clarify.
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