Re: [Muine] album/song suggestion

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On P, 2005-02-20 at 10:36 -0700, Brian Nickel wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 17:23 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> >On L, 2005-02-19 at 10:55 -0700, Brian Nickel wrote:
> >> >> It seems like one problem is the separation between albums and songs. A
> >> >> separate problem that I have is that I listen mainly to classical music,
> >> >> where the most important piece of information is the composer/artist which
> >> >> is not shown in the playlist. Also often one album will have many many
> >> >> tracks, which makes the playlist very long.
> >> >
> >> >This depends on how you tag your files..
> >> >
> >> >I listen to a lot of classical music as well, and tend to put the
> >> >composer into "artist" and performers into "performer". 
> >> 
> >> Perhaps we could tack on a db item "extradata" which just stores just a
> >> raw string of extra tag data like composer, publisher, etc, which won't
> >> appear, but will be included in the search queries in the add song
> >> dialog.
> >
> >Strikes me as gross performance and memory waste for the vast majority
> >of users ..
> 
> Really? For the majority of songs, this extra data would be nothing,
> even a nullified string variable, then tacked on to the search key in
> GenerateSearchKey. For the most part, this change should do next to
> nothing memory and performance-wise, especially considering those fields
> aren't typically set arbitrarily.

Many of these fields are set on files bought from online music stores ..


Jorn