Re: [Tracker] Is metadata writeable yet?

["Edward Duffy" <eduffy gmail com>]

Also, I can't do File.Rank either:

19 Sep 2006, 19:12:00:940 - Warning: Metadata could not be set for
File.Rank with value 1 due to Metadata is not of a writeable type


On 9/19/06, Edward Duffy <eduffy gmail com> wrote:
> Ok..two things then.
>
> 1) Is updating embeded metadata planed?
>
> 2) MusicBrainz information isn't embeded, is it?  Shouldn't that have
> still worked?  It's listed on shared-filemetadata-spec was writeable,
> and org.freedesktop.Tracker.Metadata.GetTypeDetails('Audio.MBArtistID')
> returns [u'string', False, True]
>
> On 9/19/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > Edward Duffy wrote:
> > > Hey -
> > >
> > > I'm trying to call org.freedesktop.Tracker.Metadata.Set, but it
> > > doesn't seem to be working.  Here's the a simple Python script to set
> > > then read Audio.MBArtistID:
> > >
> > > #!/usr/bin/env python
> > >
> > > import os
> > > import sys
> > > import dbus
> > >
> > > bus = dbus.SessionBus()
> > > obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Tracker', '/org/freedesktop/tracker')
> > > meta = dbus.Interface(obj, 'org.freedesktop.Tracker.Metadata')
> > >
> > > f = os.path.expandvars('$PWD/' + sys.argv[1])
> > > keys = [ 'Audio.MBArtistID' ]
> > > meta.Set('Files', f, keys, ['11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111'])
> > > print meta.Get('Files', f, keys)
> > >
> > > but in my tracker.log I get:
> > >
> > > 19 Sep 2006, 16:23:33:856 - Warning: Metadata could not be set for
> > > Audio.MBArtistID with value 11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111 due
> > > to Metadata is not of a writeable type
> >
> > that is correct - embedded metadata cannot be edited (we have no means
> > to write the embedded data to the file so we would lose it when file is
> > reindexed)
> >
> > You can use that interface for editable metadata like File.Rank and
> > File.Description
> >
> > --
> > Mr Jamie McCracken
> > http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/
> >