[X-Unix] What's in an MP3's resource fork..? [Was: Re: [X4U] ._annoying_files on SMB shares - can I remove them..?]

[Eugene Lee]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:30:53PM -0400, Alex wrote:
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: On Thursday, Apr 22, 2004, at 14:38 Canada/Eastern, Eugene Lee wrote:
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: >On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:17:38PM -0400, Alex wrote:
: >
: >: [...]  I don't like or understand
: >: Schoenberg or Alban Berg, but that doesn't mean they're no good.
: >
: >Resource forks are not transparent to the user, are not portable to
: >non-Mac platforms, may be irrevocably lost when data is transported to
: >another Mac through one or more intermediary non-Macs, and belong to a
: >platform that many pundits argue dominate 5% of the world's computer
: >population and thus represents 5% of the world's computing experience.
: 
: And that is going to help me persuade my musicologist friend that 
: "Erwartung" is crap -- how, exactly?

I did not say resource forks are junk.  While they have their pros,
they also have their cons.  Without much judgement on my part, I simply
provided several examples that support the cons.  If you want to discuss
this issue in a rational manner, please take this thread to the X4U list.


-- 
Eugene Lee
http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/