[Feedback] Feature suggestion

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Monday 05 November 2007, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Granted, but things like playcount etc. could in theory be stored in
> e.g. ID3 tags, vorbis comments etc. in which case Strigi, Beagle etc.
> *could* return that metadata (that was the vague logic behind my
> comments above!).

Oh boy.  Back to storing playcount in tags.  Trust me, quit while you're 
ahead  :-)

--Jeff