Re: [dev][announce] slm - music curation

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:50:29 +0000

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
Received on Thu Nov 28 2013 - 00:50:29 CET