Re: [dev] music db editor

From: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:01:07 -0400

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

yes, yes, this seems like the way to do it. I like this much better
than the sqlite I had been using, thanks for the encouragement.

> 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...

I'm going to work on this later this week, I'll post something with
hopefully minimal suck then.

yours,
Bobby
Received on Thu Oct 17 2013 - 00:01:07 CEST