01-05-2025, 01:02 PM
Remember that folders are just another way to add metadata to a file, same as tags. The problem with folders is that you can only encode one set of data to each file. If there are two ways to describe the file, then you need two copies of the file.
Take "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles, you might choose to add the Artist, Track Name and a "genre" of Children's Music to that file and you could do it with folder and file names thus:
/Children's Music/The Beatles/Yellow Submarine.file
But, if you have other Beatles tracks, they'll be somewhere else maybe here:
/60's British/The Beatles/She Loves You.file
Do you put another copy of Yellow Submarine here, or accept that all your Beatles tracks are not in The Beatles folder?
Use tags however and a search for an Artist "The Beatles" gets you everything, but a search for a Genre of Children's Music gets the tracks by The Beatles that are also Children's.
Take "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles, you might choose to add the Artist, Track Name and a "genre" of Children's Music to that file and you could do it with folder and file names thus:
/Children's Music/The Beatles/Yellow Submarine.file
But, if you have other Beatles tracks, they'll be somewhere else maybe here:
/60's British/The Beatles/She Loves You.file
Do you put another copy of Yellow Submarine here, or accept that all your Beatles tracks are not in The Beatles folder?
Use tags however and a search for an Artist "The Beatles" gets you everything, but a search for a Genre of Children's Music gets the tracks by The Beatles that are also Children's.
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