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

[Ron Croonenberg <ronc depauw edu>]

Well,  true..  when you rip your own cd's  or get them anywhere else you 
have the same issue, but with an extra (optional or so) field you can at 
least fix it once you have the songs in the database.  I wrote a few 
routines  (for a plugin) that fix it for a bunch, but not for all. 
(besides it runs too long to figure out what song belongs where)

But it would be nice to have an optional field like "album artist" next 
to album title. (songs themselves have an artist and a title too)

Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> Ah yes, I know what you mean.  You have the same problem with same 
> author and different versions of the same song (eg greatest hits, live 
> etc).  Bollywood as well.  It might be interesting to do that, but I 
> think you have the same problem from freedb as well.  They don't have a 
> performing artist either.  When you autodetect you'll have to add them 
> yourself.
>
> I'd open up a bugzilla bug on it and see if someone will bite and add 
> the field.
>
> sri
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Ron Croonenberg <ronc depauw edu 
> <mailto:ronc depauw edu>> wrote:
>
>     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 <mailto: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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