Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] How does Rhymthbox import songs into GtkTreeView without playing them?

[Alexandre Rosenfeld <alexandre rosenfeld gmail com>]

I suppose that what you want to do is to get the metadata from the files when you mean importing files. You have two ways.

• This is not at all how Rhythmbox does it, since Rhythmbox predates the creation of this code, but you can use the GstDiscoverer utility class: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-libs/html/gst-plugins-base-libs-gstdiscoverer.html Not sure if it's available in any distribution yet, since it's quite new, but it's awesome.
• Or you can copy and paste from here http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/chapter-metadata.html
  

By the way, you are probably getting better answers if you make them in a GStreamer list: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/lists/

Regards
Alexandre Rosenfeld