Sound librarian needed

[spm_gl]

I'm looking for a way to organize over 200GB sound effect files, as well as synth patches, etc.
We have an Alfresco DMS, so I guess I could try to do it in there, but perhaps someone here has a better solution.

[Jan]

I have no experience with a DMS, but I would sort the files into different folders which represent categories. If you use KDE, you could also tag the files and find them rather quickly, I guess. But with that amount of data every way of organising seems like a long and tedious task.

Good luck with that!

[schivmeister]

I'm in dire need of exactly the same solution. Sound for film has given a major bump to the size of my ~/Audio folder, and I have yet to back up 10 other commercial DVDs. Pretty soon I'm going to have a separate external disk from the looks of it, but as I see it now KDE really chokes upon indexing the not-so-deep level of categorisation I already have for the Samples directory. It's as slow as it were indexing a git or svn repository.

[spm_gl]

I haven't found any simple solution yet. Currently, my plan is still to "simply" pump all the data into my Alfresco DMS, and add lots of metadata.
We had a small discussion on the German audio4linux forum, and the only real conclusion was that all one really needs is something like a photo album website, especially with the tags and categories, and add a simple player and some transformation scripts. A bit of php/mysql.
But maybe we should do a survey of the various file managers available (and maybe even file systems) for linux, maybe one of them has everything we need. In my case, the data must be on a server, because we have at least 3 workstations accessing the files.

[spm_gl]

Perhaps Tracker can do the trick. Or Beagle.
I don't have time to do any testing at the moment, because I'm too busy searching my folders for samples to use on a project...

[spm_gl]

For my needs, I've just discovered Opsoro, an alternative web frontend to Alfresco, which allows easy tagging of files. I have also adapted a simple sox/gnuplot script to make waveform pictures of sound files, for a quick visual indication.
Now I still need to find time to put it all together, and need to find a very desperate intern, to tag a few thousand files.