Adding tracks to the collection

[Seb Ruiz]

2008/10/21 Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>:
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>> 2008/10/21 Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu>:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Seb Ruiz <ruiz at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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)
>
> Actually I think enabling this is a very cool idea. :)
>
>> The QtScript bindings that we have don't expose the Meta objects to scripts.
>
> This isn't true. They are available via the playlist manipulation
> stuff. You can even edit tags. Collections aren't really exposed at
> all though.

Really - wow I must have overlooked this.

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