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[Michael Shallcrass <mshallcrass@xxxxxxxxx>]

It certainly is an idea worth exploring further, Windows Explorer has
certainly displayed metadata for years so it's by no means a new or unique
concept.

Often the actual file name is unrelated to the metadata (track1.mp3 etc..)
and so it would be very useful in those situations to be able to view the
metadata directly within the nautilus windows without having to look into
file properties.

In other contexts though it might be annoying/intrusive/waste of space to
have metadata displayed, so it would be helpful if Nautilus was context
aware, and only displayed metadata when appropriate, such as inside ~/music,
or in folders where there was metadata to display.

One could argue for keeping functions seperated - file manager vs music
manager, but simply from a file identification perspective it would be good
to be able to at least display metadata in Nautilus.

If you are looking for an 'easy' way to tag files though, surely a well
integrated fingerprinting system is going to be as simple as is gets. Right
click a file (or interact with it somehow that brings up the option,) select
"Automatically fill metadata" - or something more elegant and user friendly,
and it just happens.

There are fingerprinting programs available in the repos, but they could do
with a bit of love in the UI department.

Looking into the future of the semantic desktop though, isn't the plan to
move away from file/folder mentality, rendering Nautilus largely redundant?
Maybe we should be thinking about a more global system for dealing with
metadata, or at lease one that doesn't need to have a nautilus window open.



On 28 October 2010 02:32, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Today, a friend asked me for an easy way to tag his mp3 files.
> Now Rhythmbox does this, and we should all have read the documentation
> first, RTFM style..
>
> His totally retarded mobile phone tags music in a very easy way, but Ubuntu
> doesn't afford that feature, even though Nautilus displays the metadate in
> properties.
>
> After yet another websearch on the topic, i came to find nautilus columns,
> which is not yet in the repositories. At least so, we are able to see the
> metadata as columns in nautilus.
>
> With ongoing discussions about how to handle context and metadata better
> for the future of the semantic desktop, doesn't it make sense to think about
> handling that kind of stuff directly in nautilus?
>
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