extragear/multimedia/amarok/src

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Monday 24 December 2007, Bart Cerneels wrote:
> 2007/12/24, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com>:
> > On Monday 24 December 2007, Bart Cerneels wrote:
> > > 2007/12/24, Maximilian Kossick <maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com>:
> > > > hi bart,
> > > > what do you want to use playlistMap in the AmarokMimeData::Private
> > > > for. Do you want to add support for playlists to querymaker?\
> > > > merry christmas everybody, max
> > >
> > > Yes, I was considering it. Obviously QueryMaker as it is, is very
> > > geared towards the Collection.
> > > It makes sense because some of the PlaylistProviders, the equivalent
> > > of Collection would talk some time to return. Like the
> > > AmpachePlaylistProvider, which we can now implement thanks to vollmer,
> > > who added adding playlists to the Ampache API.
> > >
> > > I would like to know your suggestions, you've got experience.
> > > Let me again congratulate you with Meta and Collection. This framework
> > > stuff is *so* hard.
> >
> > I second that  :-)
> >
> > As far as adding support for playlists to querymaker, it needs to be done
> > at some point if we're going to (as I thought we were) store playlists in
> > the database in 2.0.  This lets us access/modify them much more easily
> > and quickly, and makes importing/exporting fairly simple...and also
> > allows AFT to eventually work on playlists too.  :-)
>
> I'm working on that first point, should be done in less then a week.
> I'm not sure how to implement the AFT stuff, but I'm confident
> together we can find out how.

I can do the AFT stuff eventually.  All it really is is modifying URLs in 
tables.  The trick is when to modify it and to what  :-)

Don't worry about it for now.  It's going to be heavily dependent on whether 
we end up using our own scanner or Strigi/Xesam.

--Jeff