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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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