On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Alexandre Franke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Cosimo Cecchi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi all, > > Hey, > >> Feedback welcome! > > Music player usually get all the content of the Music directory and > then grab metadata to present the tracks filtered by > artists/albums/whatever. This is relevant for your virtual disc > collection, not so much for the notes you record with your sound > recorder, or the multi-track recordings you're working on with your > band in a DAW. > > More generically, user generated content and work files are not > exactly the same as purchased, downloaded, or transfered (from a > device) media. > > How do you think this should be handled? So far I've seen editing apps > rely on newly created directories, usually in $HOME, but as I > understand they are the ones you're trying to move into the > xdg-user-dirs. > > Another concern, which is related: how should we handle > foo-but-not-really-foo data? For instance, guitar tablatures in > TuxGuitar format are music-but-not-really-music since they are not > intended to just be played back with a music player. With your > proposal I'd say TuxGuitar could choose to create a subdirecory in > Music, but how would then your music player react?
I can't comment on the rest but this part should be handled with simple mime type support. If the app can recognize guitar tabs files, it'll know what they are - if it can't, it should ignore them. > > -- > Alexandre Franke > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
