patch for new feature: acoustic fingerprinting and audio similarity

[Ian Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Jeff Mitchell
> <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
>> -- You put fingerprint stuff into Meta::Track, where it doesn't belong, as
>> it's specialized to specific types of tracks.
>
> I couldn't figure out a way around this because the main Amarok app
> uses Meta::Track for everything.  For example, all the dynamic
> playlists code uses Meta::Track.  So if I don't add the three
> fingerprinting functions to Meta::Track, then the dynamic playlist
> can't make use of any fingerprinting code.  I tried to mitigate this
> problem by declaring the do-nothing fingerprinting functions as normal
> virtual (instead of pure virtual) in Meta::Track so that any class
> that doesn't use fingerprints can just inherit the do-nothing
> functions.  If you can suggest a better way to do this, please do.

You could use Capabilities. Just grep around for that word, they are
easy to use.

Ian