Re: Common Music Database DBus Interface

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

Jamie,

I'm keen on looking at this stuff!  Thanks.

sri

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:48:05AM +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> As I now have some time to concentrate on building a common music 
> database with Tracker(1), I have been looking at Rhythmbox's UI to work 
> out what sort of methods would be needed.
> 
> I intend tracker to be ideally used as a replacement for any currently 
> used database although it can also be used to feed an existing one (the 
> former obviously being a lot more efficient especially when user has 
> huge no of media files)
> 
> My proposed Dbus Api for music files is attached.
> 
> Also bear in mind that tracker has Dbus Api for non-music specific stuff 
> like getting/setting metadata, tags, file notifications etc - these 
> interfaces can be seen at :
> 
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/tracker/data/tracker-introspect.xml?rev=1.6&view=markup
> 
> Also I am keen to make Playlists a first class object too (which means 
> playlists can have tags and metadata too like "PlayLists.LastPlay" and 
> "PlayLists.PlayCount" etc).
> 
> I also want to explore the idea of virtual playlists (much like 
> vfolders) so we could have built in playlists for things like "Rock 
> Music", "Pop Music", "Classical" etc and also things like: 
> Sixties/Seventies/Eighties/Nineties Music etc.
> 
> 
> (1) http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker
> 
> -- 
> Mr Jamie McCracken
> http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/


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