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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[SteveX]

We don't need a special purpose filesystem for this; just one that supports metadata. I know NTFS does; do any of the common Linux filesystems?

Either way you're going to need a custom tool to do searching and whatnot, the custom tool might as well just index the stuff in the ID3 tag and work with an existing filesystem.

- Steve

Please generalize that idea

[lightspawn]

Music filesystems? Image filesystems? Movie filesystems? Document filesystems?

And please, please, at least store the file's mime type, don't play the extension guessing game.

Web server: let's guess what the file's mime type is based on the extension, and send it.
Browser: Let's guess what this file is, given the extension AND the mime type.
Stupid computers!