GSOC Project: Mass Tagging

[Jeff Mitchell]

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Colin Kern wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I noticed that one of your GSOC projects involves using the last.fm
> fingerprinting software to mass tag music.  Unfortunately I'm not able
> to apply for GSOC this year, however I have done some work on a
> standalone program that does the same thing.  It's built in Qt and
> uses TagLib, so should be no problem to integrate into Amarok.  Rather
> than incorporating the code from last.fm's fingerprinting program into
> it, I just have it run the program they distributed in their blog
> (http://blog.last.fm/2008/03/25/fingerprinting-and-metadata-progress-report)
> and parse the returned XML.  I've attached the source files and I hope
> this will help whoever does work on this project get started.

Colin,

One of the things we're doing with 2.1 is we're splitting Amarok into
two packages: the player, and utilities.  This will allow us to package
helper utilities that do not require X11 (i.e. can run headless)
separately so that they can be installed on machines without displays
but that house music.

This sounds like it could be a great fit, although we'd probably want to
see if there's a way that their library could be used rather than simply
running a separate process.

If you're interested in working on getting this integrated (which would
be the fastest way, as most of us are pretty busy already), hit us up on
this list or contact me on irc (jefferai on freenode) and we can see
what can be done.

Thanks,
Jeff
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