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> If it's an MP3, and it's under my music directory, it's pretty clear what it is.

Putting files in a directory is semantically equivalent to applying a tag. But directory structure is no way fundamental to computing, and indeed tagging is more general and flexible solution to organizing files.



>Putting files in a directory is semantically equivalent to applying a tag.

Yes, equivalent to a single tag. Not multiple tags.




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