Re: [Muine] muine database

[Jeremy Wells <jeremy olicomp com>]

ok, i'll procede along those lines then. what i don't want to end up
doing is maintaining a seperate database, its merely a feature "if you
have muine installed, look what i can do!". I'll post a link up to the
code when I get somewhere with it.

Cheers,
Jeremy

On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 15:17, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> If you want to not batch load all cover images at once you'll have to
> write your own loading code .. muine will always batch load so sharing
> that code wouldn't make much sense .. basically all you need is db.c and
> you need to know the db format.  The covers db format is not too likely
> to change (but it might!), so you should be fine.  Detecting whether
> muine is installed shouldnt be too hard, I mean, just check whether
> ~/.gnome2/muine/covers.db exists.
> 
> Having a library loading them into memory once would be more trouble
> than it's worth, imho, and it would have a negative impact on muine's
> performance. (Having to share the data through some IPC mechanism .. )
> 
> One random idea I got was that you could do something like this: See if
> covers.db is there, if so, use it, and then check amazon for any missing
> images or all images if covers.db doesn't exist.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jorn
> 
> On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 14:01 +0100, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> > What I've done so far is to take CoverDatabase.cs and modify it slightly
> > to remove references to other muine classes. Then just using libmuine I
> > can get to the cover pictures. This works quite well so far, but for a
> > few problems.
> > 
> > Its not that economical for my program to load all the covers into
> > memory like muine does as it only operates in one directory at a time.
> > Saying that, it doesn't actually take that much time or memory for my
> > collection of music, but mine is not all well tagged (thus the reason
> > for writing a tagger) and I similar size well tagged collection might
> > have many more covers.
> > 
> > I'll need my program to be able to detect if muine is installed before
> > it can use it to view the album covers.
> > 
> > Maybe it would be possible to split muine into an application and a C#
> > library where the library deals with the song database and cover
> > downloads and any application could use it. Would it be possible to have
> > a library that can load all covers into memory once for use from
> > anywhere, or is that silly?
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> > On Sun, 2004-06-13 at 11:20, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > Yea, it is just a gdbm file.  But I would recommend against using it
> > > directly, as the format might change at anytime.  However, an "Import
> > > album cover images from Muine" function would be very cool.
> > > 
> > > Jorn
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 03:16 +0100, Jeremy Wells wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to connect to muine's database from an external
> > > > applications? I've been playing around with making a tagging program in
> > > > c# and I thought it would be cool to use the album pictures that muine
> > > > downloads, and its cached tag information. would it be sensible to just
> > > > use the database directly using sqlite or would it be better to use
> > > > muine as a library to get the album pictures?
> > > > 
> > > > Jeremy
> > > > 
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