* Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs-ha...@lists.manxome.org> [2006-10-04 01:00]: > With iTunes, I can easily say "every song from an album with > 'Greatest Hits' in the title" or "every song that I rated 3+ > stars and is not in the genre 'chick music'" and so on. It > stores quite a lot of data about your music that can be used to > build fairly diverse collections, quickly.
Yeah, that is a good example. You don't even need to make the query so complex. Just getting a sensible filing scheme for genres is impossible with just the filesystem. I used to try back when I had a few hundred MP3s. But there was no payoff, in fact I often couldn't find files. So some point I gave up and made 4 broad categories and just stuck everything in a typical "$artist/$album/$tracknum-$title" tree below each of them and called it a day. (I'm starting to think the only reason that computers have always operated with strictly hierarchical filesystems is that it works well for storing a programmer's data... everyone else got by on the fact that media capacity used to limit the number of files on a disk to a hierarchically tractable amount until less than 10 years ago. BeOS, peace to its soul, made a good step in the right direction. Now? WinFS: dead and buried. Spotlight: a dirty hack. Pah.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
