[Feedback] Feature suggestion

[Jeff Mitchell]

Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>   
>>>> 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...
>>     
>
> In the words of the great thinker, Eric Cartman, "Kick Ass" :)
>
> It will be interesting to see how this all pans out and I really hope
> media apps of the future will work (in some capacity) in this way. Not
> that I'd ever convert, but it would be cool to fire up e.g. Rhythm Box
> and get the same playlist, playcounts and such as I have in Amarok. If
> Strigi or Tracker or Beagle or any other Xesam compatible system is used
> to provide the source of metadata then this is in theory possible.
>   
No, you're mixing up different things here.  Strigi and Beagle (and
parts of Tracker) aren't used for random storage, they index files.  So
they could serve as sources of data that we Xesam query to get a list of
what tracks are around the filesystem that we can play.  But random
metadata storage would be more of a Nepomuk function, which Tracker
could maybe do too.

--Jeff