by RoJeC on 30 Sep 2013, 11:44
There are several very good reasons why your way of working is not in Cross. As mentioned in the previous post it is close to impossible to have this functionality while keeping the high performance functions of Cross. To keep the high performance you would require strong CPU, fast HDD (likely fast SSD) and high memory.
From a functional point of view organizing in crates(folders) on artist\album only has become something really hard to do. E.g. many populair tracks have become multi-artist, second for identical tracks (similar title, similar artists, about same duration, about same bitrate) you would have to check every time which of these identical tracks you would have to select.
To me it was a great relieve that I could get ride of this static approach and did not have to spend time to put everything in the exact right folder, check the exact titles (beatles, the or the beatles ...)
By using the database approach with the Cross collection (as well as for Serato) you put your effort in working into the area where high speed access is available, instant search results, filters in more detail than an explorer function can achieve. By using the other fields (like genre, color, BPM, comments, group) you can find the right tracks way faster than using a disk oriented approach.
(this opinion is based on having over 70000tracks, 11000artists with 3000 albums with a 5 year old PC)
