On 2013-11-28 11:06, Charlie Kester wrote: > Here's a use-case that argues for hardlinks: I've often encountered > situations where ripping a CD or downloading from Amazon has resulted in > the same artist appearing in my collection under two slightly different > names. (I like world music, for example, and there doesn't seem to any > consistency in the way some names are spelled.) If I correct this by > moving all the files under the same artist subdir, I would break any > symlinks pointing to the subdir using the variant artist name I don't > want to keep.
Canonicalization sucks. We have to do it by hand because a) every other company / person is dumb, and b) we have personal recordings not captured by CDDB / allmusic / server-in-countryX-to-avoid-copyright.com
