Re: [Tracker] retaining tags for deleted/overwritten files

[Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org>]

Le Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:05:14 -0700,
Jonathon Conte <anotherjonathon gmail com> a écrit :

> Hello all,
>
> I have a large music collection and would like to group each song into
> multiple categories. Because I don't want to store this information in
> the file metadata itself, I think using tracker tags to categorize
> each song would be a good solution. However I've run into a problem. I
> am going to have to spend lots of time adding tags to my music and I
> don't want those tags to be easily lost. I've discovered that if a
> file has tags and it is deleted or overwritten, the tags are lost.
> This is a problem because I occasionally make changes to my music
> collection like replacing lossy versions of songs with lossless
> versions. I would lke to know whether or not it is possible to make
> tracker retain tag references to files, even if the files have been
> overwritten or deleted. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jonathon
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This would theoretically be possible with graphs, I don't know if
Tracker's graph support allows it yet or not.

Cheers

Adrien