[patch] Load media through KDE's KIOSlaves

[Valerio Pilo]

In data sabato 05 settembre 2009 00:55:33, Alex Merry ha scritto:
> 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.
> 

This is hardly a good news, as it may be an incredibly slow process, wasting 
cpu, disk space and bandwidth in the meantime.

> 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.
> 

Yes, Maximilian Kossick suggested to implement some backend support too; that 
would be the most "future-proof" solution indeed.

> 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).
> 

Ok, I'll definitely try emailing him, even if he does read amarok-devel.
In the meantime, I'll certainly make do with the filename alone :D

Now, about the patch: is anybody up for the ending-up-in-master part? ;)

> 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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