Comments on: AFT and MusicBrainz track identifiers http://jefferai.org/2009/08/aft-and-musicbrainz-track-identifiers/ Tomahawk, KDE, and other stuff Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:42:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jefferai http://jefferai.org/2009/08/aft-and-musicbrainz-track-identifiers/comment-page-1/#comment-9616 jefferai Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:41:23 +0000 http://jefferai.org/?p=1065#comment-9616 Your request makes an assumption that everyone would always actually want that behavior. (It also assumes that we can know ahead of time what portable music players support what formats, which is not something that can be reliably determined from many/most non-iPod players.) While it is easily possible that we could do the first part, there would have to be an unobtrusive and discoverable way to toggle the necessary options. Your request makes an assumption that everyone would always actually want that behavior. (It also assumes that we can know ahead of time what portable music players support what formats, which is not something that can be reliably determined from many/most non-iPod players.)

While it is easily possible that we could do the first part, there would have to be an unobtrusive and discoverable way to toggle the necessary options.

]]> By: Ryan http://jefferai.org/2009/08/aft-and-musicbrainz-track-identifiers/comment-page-1/#comment-9615 Ryan Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:10:07 +0000 http://jefferai.org/?p=1065#comment-9615 That wiki page mentions that some people may consider "song tracking" to be a feature, but I would go farther. It would be nice to see a music player that explicitly recognizes songs for which multiple formats exist in the library. For example, if your library contains the same song encoded as both MP3 and OGG Vorbis, Amarok should play the better quality one (higher bitrate?) when you play that song, but when you transfer that song to a portable music player, it should use the MP3 version for players that don't support OGG, and vice versa, without any transcoding. That wiki page mentions that some people may consider “song tracking” to be a feature, but I would go farther. It would be nice to see a music player that explicitly recognizes songs for which multiple formats exist in the library. For example, if your library contains the same song encoded as both MP3 and OGG Vorbis, Amarok should play the better quality one (higher bitrate?) when you play that song, but when you transfer that song to a portable music player, it should use the MP3 version for players that don’t support OGG, and vice versa, without any transcoding.

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