Hi, On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:38 -0700, Sri Ramkrishna wrote: > So I have a question. Let's say that I have my hard drive all index'd; > added a bunch of tags and so forth. Now, I got myself one of those > pocket drives, and I want to copy my music from my hard drive to my pen > drive or whatever, and listen to it at work. How would my metadata, > including my tags move with me?
This is a large reason why I advocate using extended attributes: metadata moves with the files, rather than requiring a special program to copy it or doing it out-of-band with a database merge or sidecar file. Of course, your pocket drive is probably formatted vfat, which doesn't do xattrs, hrm. For music, though, all the important formats allow metadata to be set inside the file. This, obviously, is the ideal situation. Unfortunately it is often limiting (like id3 tags), but it's better than nothing at all. Joe _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
