User defined query-able fields

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Fri Apr 11 22:28:05 UTC 2008


On 4/11/08, Laurent Pouillet <laurent.pouillet at laposte.net> wrote:
>  I have a question about the development of a feature.
>
>  Having started a specific music collection, I feel restricted in the usual
>  fields available in mp3 and ogg tags. So I was about to begin my own SQL
>  database to add my own fields (several musicians, composers, authors,
>  place of recordings, length of lyrics, ...).
>
>  Then I discovered that Amarok has SQL capabilities (and many more great
>  things)
>  My questions are :
>  1/ can Amarok be configured to use additional user-defined fields ? (for
>  storing into and for reading from the SQL database)
>  2/ if yes, how ?
>     if no, what do you recommend me ?
>      - to wait for it to be developped shortly, because it is an interesting idea
>      - or to write a patch by myself, because it is a rotten idea

Amarok has a "Labels" feature; these are custom tags which are stored
in Amarok's database. Sound like that might be what you're looking
for.

-- 
Mark



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