Re: [dev][announce] slm - music curation

2013-12-15 Thread Evan Buswell
Hi all, On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Alexander S. wrote: > The consensus solution: > 1) hardlinks, > 2) delete them when inode link count drops to one. If you use hard links, don't delete the hard links, and also monitor the "farm," then categorization and organization become the same problem

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-19 Thread Evan Buswell
013 at 4:33 PM, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > Evan Buswell said: >> I can care that this is UTF-8 when I need to, and not care otherwise. > > I would love to see the code that detects whether you care or not. > > -- > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff >

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-19 Thread Evan Buswell
art replacing commas with null bytes or ridiculous crap like that. On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Evan Buswell dixit: > >>playing with that adds symbolic references and uses binary instead of >>utf-8 strings); RST is better for structured text---though I

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about XML

2013-10-19 Thread Evan Buswell
x27;t really make the web stack all that much better, but at least we can containerize suck? Yes? On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Evan Buswell wrote: > I loathe XML, but I think the OPs bigger point was: hey look, here is a way > that we can try and create a space between the suck of

Re: [dev] music db editor

2013-10-16 Thread Evan Buswell
Since people seem interested in the filesystem-is-metadata approach, here's a pretty ancient perl script that I used for about 5 years to do that (wrote this before Python was even a thing). Files are assumed to be organized as artist - album/track.title.mp3. In order to better replicate the filesy

Re: [dev] music db editor

2013-10-12 Thread Evan Buswell
Thanks; that looks like a great starting point. One way of doing this would be to define/borrow a simple key/value db protocol, build/borrow a server that would speak this db protocol, but with the back end being your music library. Then the front end could just be a completely generic visual db ed

Re: [dev] music db editor

2013-10-12 Thread Evan Buswell
ond that.. is this > program designed to solve the fact that you didn't organise your music > files into artist and album in the first place? > > It sounds like this could be a bit of a monolithic beast. > > I did once start (and abandon) a tool that did a small part of this: it &

[dev] music db editor

2013-10-11 Thread Evan Buswell
Hi all, New to this list, but a great admirer of some of the elegance I've seen coming out of the suckless community. Apologies for a very long first post, but it's because I'm trying to help a lot? We'll go with that. Also, double apologies if this ought to go elsewhere. It seemed like a proposal