[Shotwell] About adding support for recorded audio files

[Tobias Rapp]

Thank you Alexey, Bruno and Adam for the encouraging feedback.

I agree that video support should currently have priority and that
Shotwell should keep its main focus on managing photos.

Adam Dingle wrote:
> By the way, here's a one-line hack to make Shotwell (the trunk 
> version) work with audio files today.  In VideoSupport.vala, find the
> function get_supported_file_extensions() in the VideoReader class. 
>
> [...]
>
> Of course, this isn't the right solution since audio files should
> really be listed separately, not as videos.  And, a disclaimer: if
> you take this approach and then we come out with actual audio support
> some day, you might need to rebuild your library since Shotwell
> probably won't be smart enough to recognize that all those audio
> files you imported as videos should no longer appear as videos.
> Still, this is the low-effort solution: it will effectively give you
> the feature you want today, I think.

I tested it and it really works. Of course it would be nice if it would
import the date, etc. information stored in the file but as a quick hack
to start managing files based on events and tags it's usable.

If Shotwell will include real audio support some day I do not fear to
perform some SQL on the SQLite database file for clean-up :-)

Thanks again,
Tobias