portable_audio_player.filepath_format gone?

[James Stembridge]

Hi Gabriel,

On 6/7/06, Gabriel Burt <gabriel.burt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggested it be removed because I didn't know of any player that
> required such a specific directory structure.  As it stands, the spec
> now allows for multiple sub directories to be specified as music
> folders.  The problem with specifying where the Artist or Album should
> be in the structure is not all audio files come from an album.

OK, makes sense.

> What happens when you don't put them exactly in that format?  What if
> you have audio files in Podcasts/NPR/*.mp3?

This gives me an artist called "Podcasts" and under that an album
called "NPR" which is what I'd probably want. If however I put them in
Podcasts/*.mp3 I still get a "Podcasts" artists but if I go below this
I just get an error saying that no albums were found and that I should
use the provided software for transfering music. If I just put them in
/*.mp3 then I get no artist (but the tracks are still accessible via
the all tracks list which is a bit long with a 2gb card).

> Assuming that a device is not listed in the HAL fdi
> entry as having a limited depth, most software would probably use
> Artist/Album/Track when appropriate.  If you think this is not
> sufficient to support the W800i, let's certainly keep discussing it.

That would indeed seem to work fine for the W800i, it just seems open
to more problems than the previous method of allowing an exact
specification. While I agree that software would probably use
Artist/Album/Track it might use Artist - Album/Track which doesn't
work.

Cheers,
James.