Re: [Tracker] Status of unimplemented dbus interfaces

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2006/11/3, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:

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> This might be a silly question (or simply answered somewhere I didn't
> look)... Why is this api needed anyway? Is it not possible with the
> current dbus api to get all items from the audio service with the
> metadata property audio.artist?

is it possible via rdf query but it wont be as nice or as efficient as a
dedicated method call

. taken

SOme other things might need some jumping into hoops EG to get a list of
all unique albums you would get all album names via RDF Query and then
sort them out locally into a unique list.

 Weeding out by album title might not work. After all "name" is not a unique identifier for an album in the set of all albums ever made... (Sorry, I work with library systems daily and this stuff will matter in this case (although a standard music collection is not comprarable to a library - I know that :-D)).

Cheers,
Mikkel