yeah now that you made me think about that is not a very good thing to fill the rate inside a song! Otherwise, is there a way to synk the ratings of the ipod songs with the ones on the library and reverese, or maybe i should write down a python script to do it? If so, is it hard to do? Tnx in advance M@
Piotr Gaczkowski-2 wrote: > > > Dnia 05-01-2008, So o godzinie 12:24 -0800, FIREcracker pisze: >> I was wondering how the rate of a song is stored! >> I think there is a database in which all the infos are stored, because if >> i >> change the position of a song, the rate info is lost! >> Is there a way to store the "rate" within the tag of the song? it would >> be > > I don't think storing such info within a track is a good idea. That's > your personal data, not the song metadata per se. IMO track tags should > only include as much info as can be found on, say, MusicBrainz. Things > like genre, tags, comments, rate or whatever should be stored in ones > personal database. > >> very usefull while using few programs that manage the same mp3s ( i >> experience this, because i'm using gtkpod for the ipod, but the ratings >> set >> with rhythmbox are not recognized) > > But different programs use different formats to store rate. There is no > standard here. > > I think the best way to store such data is to use eg. Tracker and make > all music applications query it for additional data (that is all > personal data, not found in the tags). There has already been > proposition for integrating Tracker with Rhythmbox (or the other way > round) [1]. In my opinion it is a good idea, but not necessarily the way > it was said in the mentioned article. > > I don't want to see all my music files in Rhythmbox - only those that > are of fair quality (tag-wise). I store them in a separate folder than > the untagged/badly-tagged ones. But at least storing metadata there is a > good idea. > > The only question is whether we should go Tracker-dependent or could we > reuse some spec like Xesam to allow cross-operability. > > [1] http://www.netsplit.com/2007/11/30/on-metadata/ > > Piotr Gaczkowski > > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rating-Songs-tp14638605p14985464.html Sent from the Gnome - Rhythmbox - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
