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Originally Posted by Hellmark
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).
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First, you're talking to someone who has to deal with mp3 tags in different situations and id tags attached to different formats. You're also talking to someone who absolutely needs to use various kinds of higher resolution soundfiles in various libraries with different collaborators and clients. All of those kinds of files are tagged the same way under iTunes. Some of those tags don't remain readable outside a given ecosystem when you move the file from device to device and that's where actual folders and subfolders prove useful. Tags
should be reliable, but in my experience, they sometimes aren't, which is why producers are often adamant about logical folder hierarchies when working in ProTools and DP.
Second, you're assuming that base files pulled from a damaged hard drive always retain every layer of formatting originally attached to them. Again, in my experience, that isn't true.
You might get your original soundfiles back, but not necessarily the attached identification -- the syntax, if you will -- that linked those files to the original library. And it's a pain in the royal oui to pull a lot of folders with fragmented names as well.
Believe me, I've looked at sound files that used to have ID tags before they had to be extracted from a fried external Seagate Barracuda (remember those?) after the internal drive and a raid array all blew when a rather dim assistant decided to reset the PRAM on a G4 with a custom-accelerated motherboard. We retrieved the sound information itself but lost the overwritten context in the same sense that we retrieved word files that still worked but had to be reopened and saved to be recognized.