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An iTunes group randomizer script
Authored by: gidds on Oct 07, '04 12:15:36PM
That's a solution, but not the only one, nor really an ideal one.

You gain gapless playback, and easier randomising; you lose the ability to individually label movements, go to them, play them, &c. Without that, I wouldn't have been able to label (say) which sections of Mozart's requiem were his own and which were completed by Süssmayr.

Personally, I'm resigned to hearing individual movements. And I've hijacked the 'grouping' field for my own use: indicating whether tracks came from my own CD, a friend's CD, recorded off the radio, created myself, downloaded from a web site, or whatever. (This came in extremely handy when I lost my HD with all my music on; it made reconstruction much easier!)

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Andy/

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An iTunes group randomizer script
Authored by: Fofer on Oct 07, '04 02:17:00PM

Why hijack the grouping field for comments? Why not use the "comments" field for comments?



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An iTunes group randomizer script
Authored by: DougAdams on Oct 07, '04 03:24:16PM

Fofer asked, "Why hijack the grouping field for comments?"

Classical tracks are the only track type (that I'm aware of) that uses the grouping tag "legitimately". Do a search for any Classical piece on the iTMS; if it has several movements you will see that they are grouped by the name of the piece.



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