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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