Chris Hermansen

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Chris Hermansen portrait Temuco Chile
Vancouver, Canada

Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.

On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.

Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.

Authored Comments

eloy, thank you for your comment. I confess I haven't tried picard at this point. I'll add it to my list of tagging tools to evaluate.

Thom, thanks very much for your comment. I am building a list of other tag editors to try and I will add this recommendation to it.

FWIW I store my music by artist then by album, so it's difficult not to edit all the albums from a given artist. Of course, if I wanted to edit all albums featuring a specific composer I'd have to struggle harder...

Renaming files according to tags is probably a pretty useful feature, but so far I haven't progressed past the endless effort to get the tags right in the first place.