Hi Daniel
Welcome to Mixxx!
It sounds as an interesting approach to use git for organizing your music
tracks.
If we bring this to Mixxx somehow it would be definetly a big improvement.
If you wish to discuss details of your code, that can be done the best as
GitHub pull requests.
https://www.mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/bugfix_workflow
Is also a good start to read.
In general, I also suffers from duplicates in my library. It would be grate
if we could also add a quality analysis, that can identify retranscoded
tracks like flac fake tracks made from MP3 or something. But that is
probably an other story.
I am looking forward to work with you.
Kind regards, Daniel
Am 15.08.2017 3:49 vorm. schrieb "Daniel Poelzleithner" <poe...@poelzi.org>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to mixxx and just loving it, very well made tool :)
>
> Don't know if you guys know git annex, but this is my tool for managing
> my audio library. It ensures safty and allows you to distribute your
> library onto many drives/computers/etc while it gives you consistent
> view. However, this also means not every file is always available.
>
> My usecase is this: Usually I have a flac and a good quality
> opus/ogg/whatever version - they are in the same folder. On my laptop I
> only carry a subset of non flac files. A "git annex get [file|folder]"
> would try to get a copy of the version requested. It can be from online
> sources, external drive or whatever script you write.
>
> I plan on git annex support that it would for example do a git annex
> get when a file is loaded and libraries has git annex support enabled.
> Also before metadata writeback a git annex unlock is required, for
> example to remove write protection and backup.
> Also git annex supports metadata tags I would like to import/etc...
>
> Therefore I'm fighting duplicates in my library which drives me nuts ;)
>
> So, I thought about how to get rid of them in the correct way and came
> to the conclusion that most parts are already there and some minor
> redesign should be enough.
> Instead of a track is represented by location, it makes more sense to
> have a track represented by a list of locations in different quality
> and availability. Mixxx should just load the best available version
> when a track is loaded.
>
> I added a new analyzer pass and calculate the acoustid fingerprint and
> hash. I'm not cutting the fingerprint after 2 minutes as I'm not
> interested in online lookup but only minimizing false positives.
>
> Next step is to commit them to the database and start some refactoring
> on the track object, etc.
>
>
> Additionally I nearly finished a branch with a new widget, CrateList
> which shows a list of Crates a selected library track or player track
> is in. I"m using crates more like tags and want a quick and fast view
> on which other crates the song is in. It's optional and right to the
> coverwidget on LateNight/Deere. Still some code missing before being
> useable ;)
>
> While working on both branches, I had the feeling that some refactoring
> would make a lot of my efforts much easier and maybe the codebase
> cleaner. I only know some parts therefore a wild guess. The django ORM
> has the concept of manager which you can access by instance->manager-
> >...
> This manager is responsible for saving the object to database,
> providing data lookup interface etc. When it's easy expandable, new
> features would just provide the manager with enough informations and
> hooks for handeling standard or non standard data.
> It would be easy from everywhere a TrackPointer as available to do some
> lookup or datahandling.
>
> The fingerprint is one example: It's to large to just be added metadata
> to a track, while to small for the filecache. It fits well into a blob
> column but it should not be loaded if not required.
>
> Anyway, the overall design is quite nice and qt makes it nice to work
> with. Used it only from python before.
>
> kind regards
> Daniel
>
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