Strange .csv files from Amarok in my $HOME

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm having a bizarre issue here that I can't wrap my head around:
>
> In my $HOME, there are hundreds of "*.csv" files, apparently from
> Amarok (see attached screenshot). What they contain is a bunch of tags
> and labels:
>
>
> mark at serenity:~$ cat composers-2010-10-20T15\:05\:47.csv
> id;name;
> 1;;
> 2;Bach;
> 3;Buxtehude, Dietrich;
> 4;Bic Runga;
> 5;Antony;
> 6;B. Zetlitz;
> 7;Jamie Catto/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> 8;Dido/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> 9;Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> 10;Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> 11;Rollo/Sister Bliss/Zoe Johnston;
> 12;Sister Bliss;
> 13;Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss/Zoe Johnston;
> 14;Faithless/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
> 15;Dido/Faithless/Maxi Jazz/Rollo/Sister Bliss;
>
>
> What on earth could generate these files? :)

Just found this here:

mark at serenity:~/kde/src/amarok$ ack-grep ".csv"
src/core-impl/collections/db/sql/SqlCollection.cpp
493:            QDir::home().absoluteFilePath( table + '-' +
QDateTime::currentDateTime().toString( Qt::ISODate ) + ".csv" );

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Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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