2012-05-27, 18:38
This is probably an odd question, but is there any way for me to simplify how my music library works? I basically want to remove Albums entirely. My music library was enormous, and chock full of music I didn't want to listen to, so I went through it and deleted all the songs I didn't enjoy. This generally meant all the CD's I'd bought Back When CD's Were A Thing were all purchased because of one song on the album, so there were some 13x more songs than I actually wanted to listen to. Add in random iTunes purchases and various downloaded songs, and it's pretty much a mess.
Now, see, I'm not in any way a music geek. I just want to be able to easily listen to music on my HTPC, and more importantly I want my wife to be able to easily build playlists and listen to music, and her tolerance for dealing with such things is very limited.
Is there any simple solution to remove all references to albums in XMBC? No Artist>Album>Song stepping, just Artist>Song? All my files are named that way (Artist - Song.mp3), but most (though not all) still have the album in the tags.
Or, is there an third party solution that is first and foremost simple and easy to use? In my experience, everything I've found is both extremely complex and focussed entirely on albums.
Perhaps even just a easy to manage method to make playlists for XBMC on our local PC's, then send them to be played by XBMC?
Now, see, I'm not in any way a music geek. I just want to be able to easily listen to music on my HTPC, and more importantly I want my wife to be able to easily build playlists and listen to music, and her tolerance for dealing with such things is very limited.
Is there any simple solution to remove all references to albums in XMBC? No Artist>Album>Song stepping, just Artist>Song? All my files are named that way (Artist - Song.mp3), but most (though not all) still have the album in the tags.
Or, is there an third party solution that is first and foremost simple and easy to use? In my experience, everything I've found is both extremely complex and focussed entirely on albums.
Perhaps even just a easy to manage method to make playlists for XBMC on our local PC's, then send them to be played by XBMC?