Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

[Ron Croonenberg <ronc depauw edu>]

Well,

here is why I asked:

When you rip an album, you don't necessarily end up with with an album 
with one artist

For example  the album with song under pressure from Queen and Bowie. 
After ripping that CD you basically have two different artist names and 
all different track names.

So you can collect all the tracks by album name, but than there is those 
"greates hits", "best of"  etc.  Also DJ's like Oakenfold a van Dijk 
have albums in their name but guests playing.
(there are actually quite a few albums that have the same name)


If there was an extra field in rhythmdb then you wouldn't have that 
problem  (artist, album, performing-artist ?)

I wrote a 'tree view plugin', that is when I noticed there is no unique 
way for a group (album) of songs. An extra field in Rhythmdb would fix that

Ron


Jonathan Matthew wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ron Croonenberg <ronc depauw edu> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > is it possible/easy to add a field to the rhythmdb that can be use by a
> > plugin (without having to modify a bunch of code in the rhythmbox app)?
>
> Not in general. rhythmdb is not very flexible when it comes to entry
> properties, particularly if you want to attach data to entries from
> the library or other sources.
>
> If you provide more details about what you're trying to do, I can
> probably suggest a way to do it.
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