[Nepomuk] Web Metadata Extractor GSoC idea

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Sunday 21 February 2010 18:59:33 Adrien Bustany wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:50:31 +0200, Evgeny Egorochkin
> 
> <phreedom.stdin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.

> Hi,
> I'm currently developing such an app for videos, but using Tracker (the
> gnome
> counterpart of KDE-Nepomuk). I found that the best datasource I could use
> is
> actually DBPedia (LMDB misses quite a few titles).

Thanks for advice.

> But for music, I think
> MusicBrainz is the way to go. The source isn't published yet, but it'll be
> soon, just the time for me to polish a few things.

Is this publicly announced already?

-- 
Evgeny