This is as degenerate as tag based music storage. It's basically iTunes for jpegs.
Hydrus users and questions
Angel Powell
Isaac Jenkins
That is incredibly stupid. Especially for art. There are a million criteria by which you can sort art. What are you going to do? Rename your directories according to that information? Okay, sure, let's just pretend that things like lyrics don't exist. How do you procure that information? A tool like beets is incredibly helpful for people who care about file hierarchy. You know how beets gets that info? Tags. Tags let you change your directory structure and names based on arbitrary criteria.
Also, what kind of autist do you have to be to think that tags and directories are mutually exclusive?
Believe it or not, not everybody wants their music sorted by the artist tag. Some want it sorted by albumartist, something most autistic music players can't accommodate. What if the compilation tag is toggled? Some people want to browse by album artist but see the artist tag when they query a single track. That's not an insane thing to want. Sometimes you sort by genre, composer, year, all sorts of random things. How are you supposed to accommodate that? How do you embody all that information in a file structure without keeping a separate info cache? And how would you standardize that? How do you think that cache affects parsing info?
Also,
You're just baiting, aren't you?
You write like I'm being apologetic to Hydrus. Just because I like an idea that Hydrus implements doesn't mean I like Hydrus itself. I'm telling you not to conflate the two.
Luis Roberts
It's archive.is that is redirecting through hypothes.is. It's a work-around for sites blocking archiving, there's nothing sinister about it.
Brody Mitchell
The developer of meguca.org
Luis Adams
I think you got that backwards. Most normie players can't sort by album artist, most autistic ones can.
t. Autist who sorts by album artist.
Nathaniel Gray
Oliver Cruz
As a fellow albumartist autist, I can say the exact audience. For many music players in the Free World, they can't even sort by metadata. That is especially true the more extensible and well-authored they are. Look at EMMS: artist is hardcoded as the search criteria and there's no way to fix that unless you go in there and change things yourself. The only one I can think of that can sort media indiscriminately and is still really thorough is gMusicBrowser.
Nicholas Morales
Tagsistant is a tagging filesystem implemented with sqlite and fuse. You can move files to the tags you want with paths like store/animated/cat/@/. The "@" means no more tags, and each directory between "store" and "@" is a tag. The order of tags doesn't matter, since it's not hierarchical. The directories are dynamically created from your tags. Since it's a filesystem, it can be mounted and hosted with ftp and such.
Aaron Collins
Most image viewers support some kind of primitive tagging. The one thing Hydrus has going for it is that the tagging is automatic and shared between users.
Jaxson Gutierrez
To this day, only Quod Libet can really fulfill my music tagging autism.