It's been a while I've been unsatisfied how my media collection is organized. Once a windows user, I bounced around a few music players and managers like WinAmp, Windows Media Player, iTunes, Media Jukebox and few cross platform players like Clementine, Amarok, and a others whose names I can't remember. Every switch has been painful. Play counts, ratings, genres, and many other tags are stored and read differently.

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So this will be about signald and the ongoing work of trying to find a way to provide as many client libraries in as many programming languages as possible with the least effort possible. You will quickly see that I just can't stand doing things half-assed and that "oh it works" isn't satisfactory.

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