[Feedback] Feature suggestion

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Sunday 04 November 2007, Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Sunday 04 November 2007, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > K Robinson wrote:
> > > On Saturday 03 November 2007 10:49:43 pm Dan wrote:
> > >> craig at clark.name wrote:
> > >> Instead of asking us this question.. why not ask apple if they can
> > >> store the library in an Amarok sqlite database? I'm sure they would be
> > >> willing to embrace an open alternative!

Haha, that's a pretty good one.

> > > Perhaps Apple and Amarok should both have pluggable database back ends,
> > > so they can both interchangeably use each other's data.  Or perhaps
> > > someone could write a program that converts and/or syncs the two
> > > formats. Maybe we should build a quantum entanglement module into it so
> > > you're never sure which format the database is really in until you look
> > > at it.

That too.  Hard to imagine the master of lock-in wanting to open up their 
data.

> > I've been talking about this holy grail of media device metadata backend
> > for *years*, but have given up hope if it happening in the short term
> > (seeing as I've personally not got time to do it!).
> >
> > IMO there should not be any database but everything should run off a
> > metadata tracker (e.g. Beagle, Tracker, Spotlight) which would be
> > detailed and flexible enough to allow all the information to be
> > aggregated.

I believe 2.0 is using Xesam to query Strigi for metadata.  Or will be.  In 
which case, it's a lot closer to what you talk about than anything else seen 
so far...

--Jeff