[patch] Load media through KDE's KIOSlaves

[Alex Merry]

From a quick look at taglib, the only way you can get it to read the tags is 
to copy the file to the local system.

It would be useful if TagLib provided a file-access abstraction that you could 
plug your own implementation in to.  So KDE would implement one based on KIO, 
and Gnome apps would do one based on GVFS etc.

I would try to contact Scott Wheeler (the author/maintainer of taglib) in the 
first instance, though, to see what he thinks about it.  There are plans being 
formed (although I'm not sure any actual coding is being done yet) for TagLib 
2.0.  I'm pretty sure you couldn't get this change in before 2.0, because it's 
too intrusive (TagLib has to maintain binary compatibility in the 1.6 series).

Alex



On Friday 04 September 2009 21:36:22 you wrote:
> Hey everyone! The issue - at least the Amarok part of it - was pretty much
> easy. The proposed patch is attached!
> With it, I could add files from KDE SMB shares (not mounted as local
> filesystems I mean) and copy them to the collection.
> 
> The worst part of this is TagLib though, since it doesn't read the file
>  tags. I've added a bit of code to at least have Amarok show the filename,
>  in the meantime I figure out if/how I can improve taglib to read these
>  files.
> 
> Anybody willing to help me? You can find me on IRC on #amarok or #kmess :)
> 

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