Re: [Tracker] Write-back data & default/dummy data

["Maria K." <kyrandesa gmail com>]

Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After this mornings meeting, we briefly discussed libstreamanalyser 
> (LSA) and again, this topic of writing data back to files and setting 
> default data where it doesn't exist in the file's metadata was brought up.
>
>
> 1. If a file doesn't have ALL the metadata associated with it that we 
> would normally expect (for example Video Title), should we set a default 
> value for these cases?
maybe sth. like 'Unknown', better maybe to leave it empty
> 2. If we do have a default value to set, should we write this back to 
> the file?

I wouldn't write it back without asking the user first. This is not the 
kind of behaviour I'd expect from tracker. (would you like to have all 
of your videos renamed to unknown-whatever_was_here_before.mov?)
If there's a dialog giving files with missing tags that could be fixed, 
that's different.

>
Maria