On 10/15/13 at 05:10pm, Martti Kühne wrote: > 3.: I don't have any need to collect metadata about my music I run off mpd, > and
That's probably because you don't use portable media players. Most of those are much better at displaying metadata trees than at letting you navigate directory structure. > 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... The question is whether your media player will know, too. Anyway, my point is: tag editors and the like target a use case that is, apparently, not yours. Manolo
