OK, some more random thoughts:

First, this kind of extension is I'm sure what the designers had in
mind when slimserver migrated to using a "proper" database - allowing
the options to get at the music in lots of different ways. The one big
snag for me at the moment is that, just now, I don't think the database
is stable enough - there are so many issues where the answer is "trash
the database and start again" that I for one would not be happy with it
containing any data that wasn't instantly accessible from somewhere else
(e.g. tags). Another advantage of putting any extra info into tags is
that you can then use any of many different tagging tools to enter and
edit those tags.

Second - I could be wrong about this - I suspect that erland and
buddachile may be asking for different things here. As I read it,
erland is looking for something like smart playlists, the key feature
being that you don't have to tag each piece of music individually.
Whereas I think buddachile wants to be able to mark music on a
personalised model - which I think would be met by the ability to add a
user-defined tag and then browse or search on it.

Third, I worry about the use of the term "tree" ... perhaps it wasn't
meant this way, but if it means a fixed hierarchy I would not like to
see that.  I'd really like to be able to browse in as flexible a way as
possible.

Ceejay


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