Bite-sized Amarok projects

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about adding Auto-tagging feature/helper?
>
> Its quite easy to fetch tags from services like last.fm in a similar way as
> lyrics.
>
> The catch there is to handle this process not to get too many tags, mistyped
> or used on only one file. But its doable. The simplest way, I think, is by
> having separate table for tag meta data. Once new tags are added, they are
> instantly written to Amarok DB and marked as unconfirmed. Later some sort of
> tags editor kicks in. There user can easily mark tag as one of these: Junk -
> There is lots of tags like Sexxxxy, cool, etc that doesn't make scene - Just
> mark them junk, and they are gone forever. Alias - Take an example if user
> is not a big fan of hard rock. I bet he whoun't like to have "Underground
> rock", "East cost rock", "Celts rock" etc. Marking them as alias to simply
> Rock would do renaming automatically and also save the day. And finally -
> Marking as "Confirmed" Should just add them as they are.
>
> Especially when you can't tag on 3rd part id3 editor, and doing this
> manually for 2k-10k+ collections would take weeks, if not months.

Are you speaking of Genre tags, or labels? We do now have a labels
applet in Git.

Valorie