amju_wolf , 7 months ago

Because unlike your file manager both Darktable and any decent music player can work with file metadata in addition to the actual files.

And why do they do it? Because most people like to use it that way - instead of painstakingly making sure your files are in the correct folders (and then being fucked when you want to play anything that’s not sorted like that - say, you have everything by artist and album, but now you want to play everything by a specific genre; or in image editing you want to filter by how you rated that picture so you know which one to pick for an edit).

Not everyone needs that, sure. But most people appreciate it - especially if the software does it well.