Amarok 2.0 mysql dump

[Rich]

On 2007.06.08. 18:34, Ian Monroe wrote:
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> Your going at this from the wrong direction. The database is mostly a 
> cache of what is stored in the tags of music files. You can't add 
> multiple artist support in the database before there is first some sort 
> of way of storing this in the music files.

well, oggs and flacs support this, so i have heard.

"ID3v2.4 is the latest version of the standard, dated November 1, 2000. 
Notably, it allows textual data to be encoded in UTF-8, which was a 
common practice in earlier tags despite the standard. It uses a null 
byte to separate multiple values"

(from wikipedia, so no idea how correct this information is :) )

the question probably is - what about taglib support for these features ?

> And then there has to be a 
> user interface for it. I can't imagine how it would work without some 

that's a separate question, i believe. getting it right might not be 
easy, but highly rewarding.

if a decision is made to implement this, i'm sure usability experts will 
attack in hordes ;)

> sort of hack that assumes commas seperate artists. Adding 
> support for it in the database is really the easiest part and could be 
> done easily in the future.
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  Rich