Re: [Tracker] XMP sidecar files (newbie alert)

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Alex Mac wrote:
> Hi there I'm fairly new to tracker so I'm not sure if this is already
> supported or completely incompatible with what tracker does but here
> goes:
>
> One of the things I've been hoping the beagle folk would implement is
> support for XMP sidecar files. Anyone who has used photoshop will know
> that it can store metadata about a a file in a seperate file in a
> format called XMP. Beagle's current filter architecture does not allow
> a filter that catches one file (the XMP file) to update the database
> info about a different file so extracting data from sidecar files is
> not yet a possibility.
>
> Is this either possible in tracker now or something that might be implemented?
>
> Example situation just in case that wasn't clear, we have two files:
>
> foo.blah
> .foo.blah.xmp
>
> In the file .foo.blah.xmp I add some data saying effectively "author=bob"
>
> when i do a search for all files with an author called bob tracker
> will return foo.blah not .foo.blah.xmp
>
>
> My main motivation for this is because I have a script that downloads
> imdb info about my movie collection and stores the data in .xmp files
> alongside the movies
>
> Any thoughts, or am I better off waiting for beagle to update it's filter code?


it would require significant changes to support that so its unlikely in 
the short term.

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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