Music Filesystems?

Cutriss asks: "I suspect the odds are fairly good that a high percentage of Slashdot readers have a folder, disk partition, network share, or even a hard drive dedicated to storing Oggs or MP3s. Given that this is the case, wouldn't it be beneficial to develop a filesystem optimized for such a use? For instance, in Windows, Microsoft has special folder layouts for folders declared to have digital music or images in them. The digital music folders don't bother with file permissions or any unnecessary data, but instead display your songs with the appropriate ID3 tag information instead. If a filesystem were developed that intrinsically indexed its files by ID3 tags (or similar mechanisms), wouldn't this be an ideal structure for storing and searching through your album collection? And, more to the point, are there any such efforts under way to develop such a beast?"

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gosh

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Gee, yeah, who would want file permissions on files, anyhow? Feel free to delete all my MP3's, since they're just music, after all.

Usually this sort of presentation is up to the application, not the filesystem, and Windows is no exception here. The thing presenting the "My Music" folder with ID3 tags and whatnot is the shell (explorer.exe); it's a graphical file browser. There are many of them available for Linux as well.

And personally, I don't really care if my file browser supports this, as long as my MP3 player can read ID3 tags...