Re: [Tracker] Guessing metadata and retrieval from external resources

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mo, 2011-10-10 at 11:01 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote:

> > Why would one want this? Often more info than can be extracted from
> > files is appreciated. It will prevent applications from having to
> > reinvent the wheel, deviating from Tracker as their meta-data source
> > because it does not have the information.
> > E.g. Rygel could start listing movies on a TV with the actual movie
> > title instead of using file names or list them by director even though
> > no tags where present. Banshee (if/when they start using Tracker) does
> > not have to maintain their own MusicBrainz query service because Tracker
> > already provides the information.
>
> There are a number of issues here. What springs to mind is:
>
>   - Do we write back the data to the file itself (I would like to see 
> that, but support there is limited right now by file type)?

This could also get quite messy, setting tags in AVI files e.g.
practically requires remuxing :-/