With reducing disk storage costs making large (1TB) disks affordable, I have decided to rip my CD’s as .WAV file format (uncompressed audio @ CD quality).
However, this format doesn’t support ID3 tags, so the media library can’t organise by Artist and Track Name (nor Genre).
It would be a great help if the WD-TV could parse a .WAV file filename to split it it into the various items, so that:
Abba|Money,Money,Money|Pop.wav
gets listed as:
Artist: Abba
Title: Money,Money,Money
Genre: Pop
and is therefore fully searchable using the ‘search’ button.
Many ‘ripping’ programs (I use CDex) can assemble a filename from such elements obtained from CDDB/FreeDB.
The same case can probably be made for picture andvideo formats which don’t include metadata in ‘tags’ or similar structures.
A further enhancement would be to support several, or even user-defined, naming conventions; the one I used in the above example is typical, and uses a non-language seperator (the pipe ‘|’) which can never appear in a name, but there are others…
Alternatively, could the folder name be used as the Artist - or Album - name?
