Dean Landolt

I just randomly came across this interesting post about rethinking the structure of the filesystem. I’ve been beating around a similar idea in my head — though a little more abstractly. I’ve been enamored with the idea of a pseudo-filesystem for some time, and I think I finally figured out how to do it. Before I was thinking I’d have to hack around in Samba to pull something off, but hell, I could slap something together in python that exposes a WebDAV share in any number of ways based on the request. (Then just share the WebDAV folder through Samba if you want native Windows networking.)

I’m thinking about trying to put a prototype together in TurboGears (probably just focused on managing my music collection for now) — the approach would be loosely based on tagging but rather than just metadata tags I’ll probably go with key/value pairs — you could store damn near anything about a file (or a resource in general) and even share it transparently.

I hadn’t even given any thought to metadata like psychoacoustics. Anyone have any idea what the hell that kind of data looks like?

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