Re: [Tracker] taglib usage

[Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 21:16 +0200, lariamat wrote:
> Hi all
> I've got a indexing question. I am writing a application that uses
> taglib (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html) and I found out
> that tracker starts reindexing all my music files after taglib was
> reading (!) all the tags. The files have not been changed. They were
> just accessed to get id3, etc. data.
> The last change times of the files are months in the past but tracker
> thinks the files have to be reindexed. 
> Is tracker looking at the access time or something else? If so, is there
> a way to find out that the file wasn't changed? Or is the cpu load
> produced just coming from that?
> I am using tracker version 0.6.6 on ubuntu.
> JÃrn

tracker is triggered by files open in write mode which then close

Does taglib provide a read only file opening option?

If not I suggest filing a bug against taglib to do so as this will
affect tracker/beagle/strigi/any other indexer that uses inotify

jamie