Re: iTunes on Windows

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From: Chris Devers
Subject: Re: iTunes on Windows
Date: 00:32 on 04 Oct 2006
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Joe Mahoney wrote:

> I personally like to be able to organise music by stuff like BPM, 
> genre, length (which isn't the same as file size) as well as 
> artist/album/song. I'm not sure how you'd structure a filesystem to 
> make that easy.

Provide hierarchy, metadata, and efficient search. For example: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System 

BeOS didn't have a mail program as such, it had special hooks to the 
Tracker (Finder / Explorer / etc shell workalike) that allowed a folder 
full of rfc822 mail files to act like a mail client. 

BeOS didn't have a music player as such, but special hooks that let 
Tracker do useful things when looking at MP3 files. 

Etc. 

It got a surprising amount of mileage out of that idea, including, among 
other things, easy ways to search for things by arbitrary criteria, 
because it new, for example, that an email file had attributes like 
sender, date, and subject, while a song file had attributes like artist, 
album, and genre. And, of course, you could organize or search by any of 
these attributes, all right in the file browser. 

Granted, modern OSes completely fail to be able to do this. Oh well.


-- 
Chris Devers
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