On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:16:13PM -0500, Bobby Powers wrote: > Hello! > > This is a followup to last months "music db editor" thread: > http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1310/17781.html > > 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: > > "${FARM_DIR}/artists/Some Artist/The Album/1_The Title.mp3" -> > $HOME/Music/somesong.mp3 > "${FARM_DIR}/albums/The Album/1_The Title.mp3" -> $HOME/Music/somesong.mp3 > > Where FARM_DIR is defined in config.h. > > Comments on this approach & the code are very welcome:
I would detect file type by mime - not by file extension (function is_music_file()). But that's not so important. I just remembered that we were punished at the school when we did this :) > https://github.com/bpowers/slm > > yours, > Bobby >
