TINP-based filing

Overview

This page describes how product data can be stored in a file system using folders that are named like the corresponding TINP.

Recommendations

Audio

Audio storage is covered in the article TINT-based filing.

• <root>/<TINP>/<Side#>/<Track#>.<ext>
  • For example, track 1 of CD 1 of the album having TINP 00008637207120 may have the pathname C:/tangomusic/00008637207120/1/1.flac

Graphics

Use

• /graphics
  • <root>/<TINP>/graphics or
  • <root>/<TINP>/<Side#>/graphics

Don't use

• /images
  • could refer to non-picture items, e.g. disc-images
• /photos
  • An image may hide whether it was scanned, photographed, or even is from publisher directly.
• /scans
  • An image may hide whether it was scanned, photographed, or even is from publisher directly.
• /pictures
  • Some people count icons etc. as graphics and not necessarily pictures.

Undecided

Sorting 78rpm images, one could decide to use:

• <TINP>/<side#>/graphics

for images related to a TINS

This system would use more folders, using File explorer one couldn't see all images for one TINP.

One would need to decide when something is TINS related, e.g. 1) one page of a booklet could be related to a TINS. But it can be defined that /graphics holds graphics /of/ a TINS item, since the booklet is not the TINS item, if the TINS defines one side, the image would go below the <TINP>/graphics folder.

2) an graphic of TINS and other TINP items or several TINS items, would need to go below <TINP>/graphics

3) special case of 2) - a 78rpm inside the packaging, where one clearly sees the label.

4) sometimes it may be clear that something is an image of a TINS item, but only the TINP is known, i.e. side number unknown.