'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow?

IceFox writes "In the past few years many of us have been introduced to a new type of application, the Type Manager. Most of us are familiar with iTunes, but there are many other Type Managers out there that are gaining market share and a rabid fan base of users such as digiKam and amaroK. Type Managers seem to have that magic combinations of features that makes users love them. I have been taken a closer look at the Type Manager, what makes them so usefull, what they really provide for the user and came to some surprising results. After creating a list of all the traits of a Type Manager I was able to define exactly what a file manager should be and discovered that there are in fact many partial Type Managers out there now that implemented only half of what makes up a full Type Manager."

Comments

Stop the presses!

[Willeh]

People on Slashdot really like iTunes? That same software that is bloated, sneaks quicktime into unsuspecting installations, rips to vendor locked-in AAC, etc. etc?

I for one really hate iTunes for various reasons. I can manage my own mp3 collection in a sensible manner, and i don't want to have to navigate your braindead library. Call me old & grumpy again, but sheesh. Not to mention iTunes is an evil kludge gui-wise on both OSX and Windows.

Re:Excellent choices of hackneyed responses.

[Overzeetop]

Sorry, but Philospher as a title just doesn't really fly with this crowd. This kind of piece ranks right up there with the dozen or so OQO articles before the launch, or Cringly's article on how things should be. We want results, we want product. If we wanted "this is a neat idea, somebody should do it" we'd grab a pack of nabs and a coke and find the geek table in the lunchroom. The number of replies (most of which should be "redundant", not "insightful" or "informative"...including mine by the time I posted it) confirms this.