Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Support for organizing by multiple genres per song.

[Christophe Fergeau <teuf gnome org>]

Le mercredi 02 mars 2005 à 17:54 +0100, Gabriel de Perthuis a écrit :
>The immediate problem to solve to handle these tags is the internal
>representation of songs. The rhythmdb keeps songs in a tree of
>genre->artist->album->song (from the INTERNALS text in the source). The
>panes are currently relying on this, but they could use the
>RhythmDBQuery interface instead if the rhythmdb changes to a flat db.
>The other solution is to keep the tree and just duplicate entries. As
>long as multiple tags aren't widely used, the db wouldn't grow much. The
>entry list would filter the duplicates at the end. The gamin part would
>need changes.
>


Iirc, walters once said on IRC that supporting multiple genre or artists
for a single song wouldn't be easy with the current rhythmdb
architecture.

Christophe