Quoth Truls Becken: > On 2013-11-27, at 23:16, Bobby Powers wrote: > > > 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. > > I would just like to point out that this idea could be generalised to any file > type that contains data you would like to categorise on / query by. For > instance > emails per sender, any file type with some kind of tags or keyword support, or > even just group by file name extension.
Has nobody linked [0] in this discussion yet? (I haven't read every mail because it is very boring.) An interface based on files is reasonable, but one based on symlinks? less so. 0. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/symlinks
