Adding tracks to the collection

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/10/21 Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>:
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> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Max,
>> I'd like to be able to give scripts access to insert or update tracks
>> into the local sql collection database. My primary reason for doing
>> this is to workaround numerous issues within QtScript combined with
>> QtSql. Essentially, I'd like to be able to do something to the effect
>> of sqlCollection()->insertTrack( url ); and add associated statistical
>> data to that track (playcount, score etc).
>>
>> What is your opinion on exposing this sort of functionality? If you're
>> okay with that, what would be the best implementation?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Seb
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> I really can't imagine any other script ever needing to do this. So to me
> that means either you should rethink having it be a script at all or it
> means that you shouldn't worry about making the API clean, since its
> essentially an internal API. So do whatever makes implementation easy.

Sure, perhaps not, unless we want to allow third part scripts to build
collections (bad idea perhaps). Eg, importers from arbitrary (iTunes,
rythymbox collections etc)


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