Re: [Banshee-List] Album completeness

[Matt Sturgeon <mttza1 gmail com>]

I assume it would be possible to have a file that contains encoded
audio/video for multiple tracks, which could be gziped

A gzipped archive like this:
album-x.album
+ control (album specific metadata)
+ media files
+ more media files

I would recommend that the format specifies handling all album/file
metadata in the control sub-file, as opposed to "tag"s in the
individual tracks.

An example of a control file could be:

<global>
<meta type=type>music</meta>
<meta type=mime>application/ogg<meta>
<meta type=artist>Foo</meta>
<meta type=album>Bar</meta>
</global>
<music>
<item src=track1.ogg>
  <meta type=track>1/12</meta>
  <meta type="name">FooBar43</meta>
</music>
<music src=track2.mp3 mime="audio/mpeg">
  <meta type=track>2/12</meta>
  <meta type="name">BarFooWorld</meta>
</music>
</items>

The above example is basically XML/HTML/XHTML inspired, and could be
compiled into something machine-readable for performance reasons. It
demonstrates a method for including a content list of the archive, and
include metadata. Also - as demonstrated by the entry for track2.mp3 -
a method for defining individual exceptions to global meta-settings
could be defined.

This should bee a project in it's own right - outside of banshee - though.

On 20 January 2011 22:53, gnomeuser gmail com <gnomeuser gmail com> wrote:
>
>
> 2011/1/20 troels <troels knakkergaard dk>
>>
>> I'm also wishing for album-orientation instead of track-orientation, from
>> a
>> storage point of view. All these many individual track files fragments the
>> disk drive and the time it takes to backup or mirror your music collection
>> would be half the time if albums was stored as such (if your music
>> collection originates from albums that is). I made this crude presentation
>> a
>> while back, http://album.sf.net
>
> If you want an experience that is very album focused you can try the
> muinshee frontend for Banshee.
>>
>> Maybe this concept is compatible with yours Dougal, some common ground
>> could
>> be found?
>> I may be prepared do some work on this, to get .album support in Banshee.
>> I
>> know C# well but I'm not familiar with the Banshee code nor with GtkSharp
>> nor with gstreamer but I could probably learn. Proof of concept would be
>> to
>> see Banshee play such an .album file. Initially the files can be produced
>> by
>> hand but eventually good tools to convert to and fro will be needed, maybe
>> from inside Banshee.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Troels K
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/users/troelsk
>> http://www.wxcommander.com
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