On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 01:18:50AM -0700, Evan Buswell wrote: > mpd is actually about 50% orthogonal to what I want to do. It > maintains a database in order to play files. I'm pretty OK with the > actual players out there. The primary purpose here is not playing > music but managing and editing the metadata associated with music > files; I just threw in the call-an-external-player feature since, if > you already have a means to select a bunch of files based on tags (for > inspection/editing), this might literally be about three lines of code > extra. Although code is not the only consideration, so perhaps that > doesn't belong. >
First of all: Welcome. 2.: A top-post only thread? Are you people kidding me? 3.: I don't have any need to collect metadata about my music I run off mpd, and if I had the need, I could build symlink trees from my already sane directory structure: music/A/Artist/Album/trackname.flac That way I could add whatever metadata I could think of on any point in the tree - and in actual filesystem metadata, since, that's where metadata goes, right? As an example, I could list albums by different artists in a "weird" directory and link all the weird music there, residents, die antwoord, etc. I myself have a lot of unknown artist id3v2 tags and broken encodings in that data, but I don't much need to give one, since I know where to find my stuff... Also, where's the code? I'd be interested to try stuff out, especially 3 figure SLOC projects as it's tradition in this part of the net... cheers! mar77i
