Towards Amarok Mobile: Beginning separation

[Ian Monroe]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Bart Cerneels <bart.cerneels at kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 16:05, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On 3/22/2010 7:01 PM, Ian Monroe wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
>>>>> I'll keep that in mind, and thanks. What do you know about databases on
>>>>> Maemo?
>>>>
>>>> Both Fremantle and Harmattan use Tracker. Tracker already has all the
>>>> music info. I'm not sure libqttracker works for the Tracker thats in
>>>> Fremantle though.
>>>
>>> I'm not actually sure what's in Tracker, though. Does it read all tags
>>> from all formats?
>>
>> More or less yep. And its possible to extend (eg the ogg support
>> package adds ogg support).
>
> It's more nepomukish. Well, actually it's gnome-nepomuk really. So
> much so even that a nepomuk inplementation and a tracker
> implementation would share so much code it would be better to create
> SemanticCollection that uses the ontologies and implement the
> communication with tracker|nepomuk as a plugin.

In Fremantle its more stupid then that. It doesn't support SPARQL etc.
So its really just a file indexer.

For a local file db I think Tracker is really the only option, we
don't really have a choice.

Ian