Re: [Tracker] Tracker API for music player

[Pavel Rojtberg <lists rojtberg net>]

thanks for your reply. Yes YouAmp is a player for maemo :)

Looking at the API exposed by D-Feet, the most promising method for my 
needs seems to be Tracker.Search.SqlQuery.

Is this executed directly on Trackers internal SQLite db? And if so is 
there some documentation about the available tables and fields available?

As for the album art thing; it seems like I just have to build the 
location string myself, which is not a big deal.
Now I am curious if Tracker will also be able do automatically fetch the 
album art from internet or whether I have to do it myself?

Regards

Pavel

On 14.04.2009 17:15, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> El mar, 14-04-2009 a las 16:09 +0200, ext Pavel Rojtberg escribiÃ:
> > I am the author of the unknown music player "YouAmp" and I am evaluation
> > whether it is possible to replace my self written indexer with tracker.
>
>   Great! It should be possible (and recommendable). BTW, I think i saw
> "YouAmp" in maemo...
>
> > I already read that the best way to use tracker is calling it over D-bus
> > - but is there at least some D-Bus API documentation somewhere?
>
>   Not much documentation for the API :/ If YouAmp is written in C, take a
> look to libtracker. If it is written in Python, use directly dbus
> (exploring the API with d-feet, for instance).
>
>   The XML description of the DBus API is here:
> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/tracker/trunk/data/dbus/
>
> > Particularly I need methods for:
> > * getting all music files below a certain directory
>
>   Uhm... we have a method for that... but why to use directories? now you
> have the great and wonderful metadata available!
>
> Some hints:
>   * In Tracker.Files "GetByServiceType" you can get "all music files"
>   * With an RDF query you can filter "path starting with"
>
>
> > * filtering by artist, album, title
>
>   * GetUniqueValue for Audio:Artist, Audio:Album or Audio:Title will
> return the list of different values on each property
>
> > * sorting by artist, album, title AND mtime
>
>   There is a "sort" parameter in the API, where you can choose how to
> sort the results.
>
> > * storing playlists
>
>   It is extremely complicated in tracker (though you can use directly
> totem-pl-parser). Tracker only recognize the duration of the playlist
> and the number of tracks.
>
>
> > I also read Tracker supports Cover albumart fetching - does it work
> > already? If so is there some documentation how to get the albumart?
>
>   Tracker is able to extract the embedded album art from the files. There
> is a specification about how to find it later:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/MediaArtStorageSpec
>
>   (Philip can answer more in detail about this)
>
>
> > I am using Tracker in Ubuntu Jaunty (currently 0.6.93)
>
>   That is the current stable version (and what you will find in
> maemo/Fremantle and desktop distributions). Maybe you should also take a
> look to the MAFW. It has been released as open source recently and
> offers a higher level API for media applications (including UPNP
> abstraction!).
>
> Regards,
>
> Ivan