Re: New metadata source proposal: local-metadata

[Iago Toral <itoral igalia com>]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:40:20 +0100, Guillaume Emont <gemont igalia com> 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking of writing a new metadata source that would be there to
> provide metadata that can be obtained locally, while not being 
> provided
> by the proper back end of any source.
>
> The metadata that come in mind for now are:
>  - thumbnails in .thumbnails/
>  - album artwork in .cache/media-art
> I'm open to more ideas.
>
> Possible alternatives I see are:
>  * include that code in all sources that could need it. The 
> filesystem
> source already provide .thumbnails/ thumbnails using GIO, and we 
> could
> have the tracker plugin do it in the same way. That means duplicated
> code. Note that even in my solution, the .thumbnails code will be 
> quite
> similar to the stuff in filesystem, but removing it from filesystem
> doesn't make much sense, as it's a one-liner in that context.
>  * not get that metadata
>
> Also, I see two ways of implementing that:
>  * as a separate plugin
>  * as a metadata source added to the filesystem plugin
>
> Comments/ideas/better name to propose?

I think the idea makes sense. I would do that as a separate 
metadata-source plugin.

Iago