[Rhythmbox-devel] Handling non persistent tracks was:Keywords (aka categories or tags) in Rhythmbox

["Christophe Dehais" <christophe dehais gmail com>]

Hi!

This questions me about the link between the database and the songs
that are "recreated each time".

Is it correct to say that the "database" structure built at runtime by
RB contains tracks that are not saved back in the playlists.xml and
rhythmdb.xml files ?
And then: is the problem of handling all fonctionnalities (adding to
playlist, tags) for any tracks (including daap-served and portable
player ones) boiling down to finding a way to store those tracks in
those files ?

Having all my songs on a daap share and an ipod is a quite strong
incentive for me to actually try and fix this issue if possible.


cheers,
Christophe



On 3/2/07, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:39 +0100, Christophe Dehais wrote:
> > On 2/27/07, James Doc Livingston <doclivingston gmail com> wrote:
> > > G'day everyone,
> > >
> > > Recently I did most of the backend work required to support Keywords (or
> > > category, or "web 2.0"-style tags" in Rhythmbox - which can be found
> > > attached to bug 324540. Using this you can have tracks marked as "jazz",
> > > "bloody awesome", "copy to my ipod" or "I should delete this track", and
> > > use the presence (or non-presence) of keywords as criteria for automatic
> > > playlists. In the future we'll probably be able to tag artists and
> > > albums too.
> > >
> >
> > Will this also work for non persistent tracks like those on portable
> > players or served other daap ?
>
> Yes and no, which probably isn't a very helpful answer.
>
> The database supports then on all entries, which includes tracks on
> portable audio players and daap tracks. However they current aren't read
> from or saved to portable players, or gotten from DAAP shares.
>
>
> I'm not sure whether any portable players with databases (e.g. ipods)
> have them, but if they do we could save them there. For other players we
> could either save them into a file on the player, or a file on the
> machine.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> James "Doc" Livingston
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