On 13/03/11 13:57, Chris G wrote:
I'm just beginning to dip my toe(s) into moving recorded music and other such things (e.g. radio programmes) onto a computer or computers.
One thing I'd prefer is to be able to keep all the files in a directory hierarchy of my own making rather than using a media player's own way of doing things.
I tried various things until I settled on mpd + client of choice
Also unlike others such as Amarok (which will do what you want as long as you tell it to not reorganise files) it isn't a resource hog and if you grow tired of the user interface you just use a different one without having to rebuild indexes, hell you can even have multiple interfaces connected at the same time.
For the client side I would say that Ario is probably the best GUI client and ncmpcpp is the best text mode one, I pretty much always use ncmpcpp as I can just tuck it away somewhere in a terminal window and once you have memorised the key commands it is just lovely to use.
How does most media player type software handle this? If you point them at a hierarchy full of sound files do they build their own indexes from the shape of the hierarchy and the content (as in genre information etc.) of the files or what?
Yes that's generally how they work, most of them won't reorganise the file structure unless you tell them to