Re: Automatic updating links?

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Automatic updating links?
Date	2017-06-15 16:20 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:19:11PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 07:15:25PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:41:03PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > > What are you actually trying to do?
> > 
> > I'm making a musical mp3s library.  So I have, say, the following directory
> > tree:
> > 
> > + musical-library
> >  |
> >  + genres
> >  | |
> >  | + classical
> >  | |
> >  | + pop
> >  | |
> >  | + folk
> >  | |
> >  | + opera: una.furtiva.lacrima-schipa.mp3
> >  |
> >  |          casta.diva-callas.mp3
> >  |
> >  + artists
> >    |
> >    + tito-schipa
> >    |
> >    + maria-callas
> >    |
> >    + frank-sinatra
> > 
> > etc.  Now, suppose that I want to put una.furtiva.lacrima-schipa.mp3 *also* in
> > the tito-schipa directory, and casta.diva-callas.mp3 *also* in the maria-callas
> > directory...  That's what I'm trying to do...
> 
> I've wanted to do something like that in the past, myself. The solution
> I was considering (though I never actually got around to implementing
> it) was a FUSE-based filesystem. The idea would be that files would be
> stored in, say, a hidden, top-level directory and their ID3 tags
> scanned. The filesystem would then make the files available in, say
> "by-genre", "by-artist", "by-title", "by-album" and so on folders.
> Possibly with the ability to have multiple layers so you can get
> "by-artist/Queen/by-album/Greatest Hits II/*.mp3"
> 
> In other words, listing a directory would provide a live filtering of
> that available files, depending on the directory name. In an ideal
> world, changing the filename/path would alter the ID3 tags and vice
> versa.

pytagsfs is such a FUSE fs; it's packaged in testing now.

-dsr-

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Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 13:30 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-06-06 13:50 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-06-06 14:30 +0200
  Re: Automatic updating links? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-06 14:40 +0200
    Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 19:50 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-06 20:00 +0200
        Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 20:20 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-06 20:50 +0200
            Re: Automatic updating links? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-06 21:10 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-06-07 13:20 +0200
            Re: Automatic updating links? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-06-15 16:20 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200
        Re: Automatic updating links? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200
          Re: Automatic updating links? Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 21:50 +0200
      Re: Automatic updating links? Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2017-06-06 21:00 +0200

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