Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 22:16 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> Martyn Russell <martyn-bhGbAngMcJvQT0dZR+AlfA public gmane org> writes:
> > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > > There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Does the XMP
> > > file have to have a special file name, or is the name of the described
> > > file part of the XMP data itself? Googling for "xmp tracker" or "xmp
> > > metatracker" was just as fruitless as searching for "xmp" on the tracker
> > > wiki, so I'm a bit at a loss here...
> >
> > Yes we are talking about that, we even have some light support in
> > libtracker-extract. See:
> >
> > http://library.gnome.org/devel/libtracker-extract/unstable/libtracker-extract-XMP.html
>
>
> Hmm. To me that looks like I'm actually quite restricted in what
> metadata I can put into tracker using XMP sidecar files. Am I right that
> I will *not* be able to e.g. insert user defined tags using sidecars?

Those functions are convenience functions for many extractors (to avoid
code duplication for one). There is nothing to say that can't be
extended, but generally, non-standard data is not represented there for
the moment.

You're the first person to ask for this AFAIK, so there has been no
requirement to anything more than we have now.

-- 
Regards,
Martyn