Implementation of the "Custom Tags" Feature

Maximilian Kossick maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 29 08:55:13 CET 2009


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Daniel Dewald
<Daniel.Dewald at time-shift.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28. October 2009 22:23:29 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Two things.
>>
>> First, there is already a "labels" table that should be used for this
>> purpose (schema modified if necessary) instead of leaving it fallow and
>> creating yet another one. Labels is probably better anyways, since tags
>> has a lot of connotations already with music files.
>
> Makes sense. As far as I see it I wouldn't even have to change the Database
> much (which I like very much). Any hints on how this table is used in amarok
> at the moment? because my labels table is empty.

It is not used at all at the moment.

>> I would also highly suggest that you link tags/labels to the urls table,
>> not the tracks table. The tracks table is frequently wiped out, whereas
>> the urls table keeps its data between scans (just like, presumably,
>> labels/tags). You could of course easily make a query to the DB to only
>> fetch urls associated with a label for which there is a currently valid
>> track associated with that url.
>>
>
> Good suggestion. I'll do that.
>
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