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I absolutely get that. In many ways what excited me about seeing all these frames was the sense of possibility completely untempered by practicalities.

I wrote it in the spirit of taking the idea and going with it, off the deep end if you wish :)




I'm thinking of some engineer just doing his job, imagines a future where files dont exist and information is stored relationally in some sort of universal shared database, but tasked with designing a file format for everything you could possibly want to link to a piece of sound, and as a way to protest the broken design came up with outrageous tag specs to exaggerate the shortcomings of flat files, back when filesystem technology was still frontier




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