Moodbar in Amarok 2.0?

[Rich]

On 2008.08.21. 17:55, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
...
>> If someone outside the US would like to take on maintaining the
>> moodbar, I don't think any of the Amarok developers would mind.  But
>> all I hear right now are inquiries about its status (or complaints
>> that it hasn't been ported), so I'm being a little pessimistic that
>> given the patent problem, I doubt that it will get picked up any time
>> soon.
> 
> What this really means is that the situation is similar to MP3 support:
> Amarok can work with it, but cannot be distributed with it.
> 
> If someone wants to rewrite the moodbar using the analysis covered by
> the patent, it must be done in such a way that it can be plugged into
> Amarok independently, yet, if plugged in, work seamlessely.  This
> happened somewhat in Amarok 1, but as Mark said, the integration wasn't
> great.

from a user or coder perspective ? :)
from a user perspective, it integrated quite nicely - my main use was 
for the seekbar anyway.

> An aside: if Soren and I team up to make a single external app for both
> AFT tagging and fingerprinting, which will likely happen at some point,
> then the same app could be used for moodbar calculation, methinks.  It
> would save a lot of time and keep from there being a proliferation of

that would be awesome. i can't use a1 without moodbar anymore, i have 
gotten too used to it...

> helper apps.  I'd also like to see the mood information stored in the
> files, if they are small enough.

current moodfiles are 3k.
how could that be stored in files - as a new tag ?

> --Jeff
-- 
  Rich