Hi, yesterday, I have implemented a feature that has been awaited for a very long time: the sticker database. It is a database where you can attach additional information (name/value pairs) to objects, e.g. to song files. The stickers are stored in a separate "sticker database" (SQLite internally, --enable-sqlite, option "sticker_file").
Clients may add arbitrary names and values, currently heavily limited by the MPD protocol (no newlines, no binary, UTF-8 only). The meaning of the stickers is up to the client, MPD does not care at all. One feature which was requested by many many users is the song ratings. Other suggestions were collected by Rasmus "Rasi" Steinke in the file doc/sticker.xml. The client devs should agree on some basic standards, that's why we created that file. Accepting patches for that file! There is the new command "sticker" which enables clients to access the stickers of a song file. Its operations are limited to "get" and "set" currently, no enumeration yet. It might be useful to have variations of the "playlistinfo"/"lsinfo" commands which include some sticker values, to keep the network latency down. Awaiting your comments now. This is work in progress, and the concept may change in the near future. Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Musicpd-dev-team mailing list Musicpd-dev-team@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/musicpd-dev-team
