# The Art Of Static Linking

Since I've started using mpv as an audio player and using director
ies to categorize music on TTY, there has been a problem:

Let's say you make directories A and B. Then suddenly a thing whic
h is both A and B appears.


For example, if you categorize music by artist and make directorie
s of them, how could you deal with non-solo songs?

Or if you categorize music by album, how could you deal with songs
that belong to multiple albums?


For the former problem, I can partially solve it by naming a file
as "$date__$title__$artists.$format". Like "20230716__the_art_of_s
tatic_linking__thricegreat_THRICEGREAT.txt". Why it PARTIALLY solv
es is that it can't handle large group songs. Logically it can, bu
t you know what I mean. It can't handle 22 artists at once since t
he file name will be too long.

However, for the latter I can't name all the single/album names si
nce those are all different and long. Otherwise I can link the fil
es but linking sucks anyway.


So how to solve that besides implementing a tagging system?

After some trial and errors, I've found that just copying the file
s into all those directories is the best solution. We call this wa
y "static linking". Although this requires more disk space, it sol
ves dependency problems elegantly. And usually disk space is not t
hat crucial anyway.


Then I realized that sociologically this means self-sufficient ind
ividuals. And it's interesting how it can solve the current depend
ency hell of the world.

Self-sufficiency does not only fix your problems. It will fix prob
lems of the world too. 

Be self-sufficient.




P.S.

Some people mentioned me that there are hard links or "bind" comma
nd in Plan9. Thank you for the suggestions. But I've already known
those.

I genuinely think "bind" is the smartest way to copy. However, I s
till prefer "cp" because of its stupidity. Since I feel it's much
more (human) error resistant. Like, think of a situation in which
I "shred" files.

But anyway, if you didn't know and thinks those are better ideas,
just use them. But I simply do not.