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It seems to me most of this stuff can be done via unix command line if you are so adept... without this app.

• zyxley 10y ago
  What existing tools can automatically generate a virtual filesystem based on tag metadata?
  • x5n1 10y ago
    no not virtual filesystem, i meant querying your files by date or tag... find, grep and something to print the tag would do the job.
    • marklgr 10y ago
      But where is the metadata? With OP's tool, it is in some db, so you don't have to tamper with your files or their name.
      • x5n1 10y ago
        well with mp3 files the meta data is in the file, it's called an id3 tag. for other files, depends on the file.
  • cyphar 10y ago
    Tagging can be done with symlinks if you just want to stick to using the filesystem.
• marklgr 10y ago
  You can have some poor's man tag management with subdir-per-tag containing softlinks, but it gets unwieldly pretty quick.
  • tyingq 10y ago
    It's not terribly portable, but you can use extended file attributes. Here's an article showing how they work for Linux, OSX, and FreeBSD: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/extattrs.html http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/pages/extattrs.html