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

[Jon Phillips <jon rejon org>]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 00:34 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> 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.

Yes, this would be a major feature that myself and Creative Commons
would be very supportive of...we are promoting the use of XMP for
embedded and companion file metadata. It would be excellent to be able
to both import, export and have this sidecar concept for this type of
project so moving data around is not a lossy endeavour from filesystem
to filesystem.

Jon

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