Google SoC - Mass Tagging

[Michael Pujos]

Jerry Lin a écrit :
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> Hey guys,
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> I have just drafted up my application to Google SoC. This is my first 
> proposal written of this nature so any constructive criticism would be 
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> I am proposing to add mass tagging features to Amarok.
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I would limit the scope of your tagging proposal to tagging from www 
sources having well definied APIs such as discogs, freedb, musicbrainz etc.
This subset in itself quite a bit of work, and more challenging than it 
looks to get it right

You could design a generic framework to manage different www sources 
with different capabilities (not all sources offer the same information) 
without limiting you the the least common denominator.

Typically the user would select tracks of an album (not necessarily all 
tracks), and the www source tagger would have it's own
UI through a single or several popups to find the correct album, 
eventually match local and remote tracks (you could have an 
auto-matching algorithm but it's some work),
and write the actual tags according to the user preferences (the user 
should be able to select which tags are written). Finally you'd update 
the data in the collection to reflect the changes.

Naturally TagLib would be used for this and you'd manage all the format 
TagLib manage.

PS:  I'm a developper but not an Amarok developper, and I've written the 
discogs plugin for foobar2000.