Who called it evil?

I was wondering because all I do is /artist/album/, which is going to be the same logical appearance in navidrome as at would be from a dir structured view so couldn't understand the point.

The difference is the metadata, which I'm much more strict on so I haven't seen these sorts of problems.

I read that somewhere from a github repository maybe even in Navidrome's pull requests or Issues maybe?

I think the argument was that in directory structure you always have to think where you have to put your files and sometimes a file can be at 2 different places at the same time and I do agree to some degree, that's why I use both !

Entirely possible, I know they have commented before on not wanting to do it.

Which I kind of get if you're parsing metadata, you'd have to create a whole new method for parse and view which can be a pain. Though I'd hardly call it evil myself since its how I sort too.

I'd agree on having to think and duplicates are possible, but that's possible in so many scenarios.

shrug

Either way metadata I think is important, but ive been a pain about metadata since the 90s (because burning CDs and having the actual track info was awesome).