[Nepomuk] Web Metadata Extractor GSoC idea

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Sunday 21 February 2010 16:15:55 z wrote:
> What do you mean by "calculate a MusicBrainz ID"? The only way to know MBID
> is to query their online database on known terms about inersting track
> AFAIK. And then there is a quest to pick one real match from returned
> results. Am i right?

Not at all. There's a lib which calculates a fingerprint of the audio itself:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/How_PUIDs_Work

> 2010/2/21 Evgeny Egorochkin <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com>
> 
> Added one idea:
> > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2010/Ideas#Web_Metadata_Extractor_Framework
> > _and_Service
> > 
> > It doesn't look very hard on the surface(mostly grunt work with
> > configuration
> > and such) and is a very useful.
> > 
> > One more thing left out is "slow indexing" mode. At this moment, we don't
> > calculate hashes for files or MusicBrainz IDs for music to speed up
> > indexing.
> > Maybe it's worth to either let the user enable the features(possibly for
> > a subset of dirs) or implement a second pass of crawling to handle the
> > heavy lifting.
> > 
> > Basically, if you have plain mp3 with no tags, the "slow" crawler could
> > calculate a MusicBrainz ID, and the Web Metadata Extractor would fetch
> > the rest of metadata.
> > 
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Evgeny