Re: [Usability] The virtual meta filsystem druid

[Curtis Hovey <sinzui cox net>]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 22:20 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> Perhaps, but I think this kind of cataloging functionality could be
> incorporated into application that is designed to help with managed
> backups.  If you look at the problem from a differnt angle you have better
> luck searching for existing tools that do something similar.  If you do
> not plan on trying to implement this yourself you might float the idea by
> developers of media player applications (like say Rhythmbox) as they are
> just the kind of people who are interested in managing their large
> collection of files and might just want to develop the idea.

I've considered this when designing the next backend for Medusa.  When
the metadata repository and indexer are reliable, it will contain all
the data the RB manages and then some.  A single query to the metadata-
daemon will return the same data that RB stores in XML.  The data set
could easily show all music as being in the library without the user
manually adding it.  I believe RB will be mount point aware soon, and
that information will also exist in the metadata repository, so RB could
show the offline content as greyed out.

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