Best way of using Beagle to index data CDs

["Nikolai Weibull" <now bitwi se>]

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I would like to use Beagle to index my data CDs.  I figured that
static indexes was the way to go, but I haven't quite determined the
best way of doing it.  My initial idea was to create an index for each
CD, so that I could simply remove the index associated with a CD if I
threw out the CD.  But then I started worrying about using hundreds of
static indexes.  My idea then was to merge the static indexes into a
master index that I could rebuild whenever an index was added or
removed, using $(beagle-manage-index merge).

Does this make sense?  Does anyone have a better suggestion?

Also, I figured that I wanted to add an attribute to each file indexed
in this way that says what CD it is on, for example, 'disc:N', where N
is an integer.  There doesn't seem to be a way of doing this yet with
beagle-build-index.  Is this something that would be interesting to
see as a patch, or are user-defined attributes outside the scope of
Beagle?

Thanks!