Hi Bobby, > I've completed an initial implementation of a program which parses > music file metadata (currently only ID3 tags for MP3 support, > ATOM/AAC is next) and creates a filesystem-based farm/'DB' of > symlinks. A file at '~/Music/somesong.mp3' that had proper ID3 tags > would result in the following two symlinks being created:
Have you considered writing this using FUSE instead? It would have the advantage that as the filesystem could be generated pseudo- dynamically, links wouldn't go stale. I've never tried writing one, though, no idea if the interface is reasonable or it would be a nightmare. Nick
