A music player which "just plays whatever is in a directory". Very handy for people having a media folder with artist folders and album subfolders.
For the type of people, like myself, who focus more on tidy and disciplined storage of files instead of managing ID3 metadata etc
at the beginning of the music library a lot of "no artist name" "no album name" entries, so the foldername isn't used at all.
a lot of artist with their own entry with just one album and one song because the actual albumartist collaborated on one song with them and the mp3 resides in the same folder but they got split in the library.
if the player doesn't show music which isn't part of Playlist.
So my conclusion is their are even 3 types and corresponding mangement:
A music player which "just plays whatever is in a directory". Very handy for people having a media folder with artist folders and album subfolders. For the type of people, like myself, who focus more on tidy and disciplined storage of files instead of managing ID3 metadata etc
Wait don't most players have such a feature?
It seems like a no-brainer but actually no.
Quick test would be for example if there are:
So my conclusion is their are even 3 types and corresponding mangement:
Often players make combinations also I guess.