Re: [Usability] Display file notes easily

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:36 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > That raises an interesting idea. If a music file contains embedded
> > album art, the file's icon could be based on that art. That would be
> > much more useful than a folder full of identical musical-note icons.
>
> Except that most CD rippers place each album in its own directory, so 
> by default you'd get an entire directory of files using the same album 
> art, and there's no real overall gain.
> ...

I understand that it wouldn't help distinguish items in the same album, 
but then the music note icon doesn't do that either. And I think having 
all a folder's icons showing an album's art would be better than *none* 
of them showing it, which is what we have now.

> Single files downloaded from the interwebs and put in the same 
> directory would benefit, but is that likely to be a significant use 
> case vs. whole albums?
> ...

Another (future) use case is smart folders. For example, a folder that 
contains symlinks to all tracks in the Classical genre no matter where 
they are in your home folder.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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