XYplorer Beta Club
NO! I'm trying to RIP all my blasted, life-cluttering CDs - into .flac - and get rid of the things. They're cluttering up my life, though I couldn't live without the music. Also have rather a lot of music that's outlasted the original discs lying around in various places. And yes, I'm snooty enough to prefer uncompressed music to MP3 quality. (No, don't flame me. At the least, you can select what transcode quality you want on a case by case basis if you have a lossless original.)TheQwerty wrote:I think you were a few years too late for most people's music management needs - at least in achieving the attention/polish to attract them. Besides, the majority needed to interface with iPods and that meant putting up with iTunes and the only way to not lose your marbles there is to just accept that "Apple knows what's best" and not think about it further.admin wrote:I could do it, but I think I won't, sorry. Too little demand. After many years I can safely say that the audio crowd overall holds a clear second place to the image crowd. I'm a musician myself, I know how they tick. You better make business with photographers.
Had I known about XYplorer in the early 2000s many of my wishes would have been music related. Then life got busy and now I just find it easier to pay for streaming access to someone else's meticulously managed library than deal with those headaches.
XY is well positioned for images though. The timing is perfect with the quality of smartphone cameras and the fact that the major photo services still have rough edges. In fact, with Google killing off Picasa soon there might be an opening to attract customers by offering more in the way of editing/managing photo tags (EXIF).
The more I learn about XY, the more I wish it supported Vorbis comments to the degree it supports mp3 tags.
Please? I hate having to jump utilities so often, especially when so much of it is file management. Wish I could do it all in XY. WIsh I could do tags in Bulk Rename Utility too, for that matter, though the more I learn XY, the more I suspect I could replace that lovely utility eventually. Currently using a quite straight-forward thing called Qoobar, which is good at combining names and tags to produce something sufficiently tidy without too much thought, but it's stil one set of files at a time, usually a separate step after file renaming, and I can't apply my increasing XY knowledge to fix all my file-management needs.
The time I spend learning XY...wish I could make it the one tool to trump all others. And I really do need vorbis comments.
Wasn't too hard. 
Hmmm....