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On Tue, 07 May 2013 18:10:25 -0500, Andrew Berg
<bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> None of these would work because I would have no idea which file stores data for which artist without writing code to figure it out. If I
> were to end up writing a bug that messed up a few of my cache files and noticed it with a specific artist (e.g., doing a "now playing" and
> seeing the wrong tags), I would either have to manually match up the hash or base64 encoding in order to delete just that file so that it
> gets regenerated or nuke and regenerate my entire cache.
>
	And now you've seen why music players don't show the user the
physical file name, but maintain a database mapping the internal data
(name, artist, track#, album, etc.) to whatever mangled name was needed
to satisfy the file system.
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