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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
And no, Jobs was not correct, let alone "absolutely correct" in saying other players "sucked," any more than I would be in saying Apple "sucked" or you are in simply agreeing with Jobs's dismissal. Jobs was right to oversee the features and streamlining he wanted to add. He was right to follow his hardware/software model of integration. That doesn't mean, however, that the iTunes id3 tag organization model is right for people like me, who want their files to be organized purely by user-determined folder location and alphabetization. If your library is Id3-tag-based, your hard drive crashes and all you can recover are files, good luck tracing organization that no longer exists and folder/file-split names that are no longer coherent.
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ID3 tags are embedded in the MP3 files. Should the master library database file get trashed, you can still recover all your information from the files themselves. Should you ever look at an iPod's contents more directly, you'll see that they're all seemingly randomly named, but open up the files, and you'll still have all the info embedded in them. Yeah folders and filenames are trashed, but there are many tools that can help regenerate that stuff (I personally use KID3).