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

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 11:01:26 +0000

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
Received on Wed Dec 04 2013 - 12:01:26 CET

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