Re: [Banshee-List] Media library (summer of code)

[tobutaz <tobutaz gmail com>]

On 5/20/06, Adam Lofts <adam lofts gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Disclaimer: I am not a SoC mentor and so as far as getting funding my view
> counts for absolutely nothing!
>
> I think the broader picture of a metadata based desktop is the real solution
> to things like this. You referenced Beagle which provides an example of the
> sort of thing I mean. To get a music library you would ask Beagle
>
> library = Beagle.Query ("audio/*");
>
> I think this is the true solution to all types of applications which have in
> house databases, banshee, f-spot, firefox bookmarks etc.

Beagle does indexing, metadata extraction, and querying.

But I don't think it addresses the problems of moving files, or
hotplug, or consistent ids accross files that have been transferred on
another support.
What I want to provide is a complete, static, flattened view of every
folder and mp3 player. A file should be tracked and the database
always completely up-to-date.
Maybe my library could be wrapped as a Beagle Queryable (an indexing
backend), but it is not the same as the filesystem backend, and will
use filesystem resources differently.

So yes, Beagle.Query() is a cool API, but it does a bit more and a bit less.

Gabriel