On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Age Bosma <agebo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > As far as I understand it is that Tracker currently only sticks to > collecting meta-data which can be retrieved from the actual files. > > Would it be an idea to extend this concept by supplementing the metadata > which could not be determined from a file with info from external > resources? And/or intelligent guessing for that matter? > > E.g. we have a movie with no tags like title, director, etc. We do have > a file name though. > In a lot of cases the movie title can be subtracted from it. This could > be added to the tracker metadata, followed by requesting the director of > a movie from an external resource like IMDB. > The same would go for the language of a file like a movie or subtitle, > where a language code is included in a file name. > A different approach can be taken with music. A audio fingerprint can be > determined, followed by using that to retrieve the additional meta-data > from MusicBrainz. > > The external and guessed meta-data should be stored separate from the > normal meta-data stored by Tracker, marked as an external > title/director/... tag. > It is then up to an application to decide what to use. I.e. normal title > present? Use it. No title present but an external title present? Use > that one if you like. > > 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. > I did some tinkering to basically interact with XMBC web services and push metadata into tracker along these lines: http://clockwerx.blogspot.com/2011/01/xbmc-vs-boxee-vs-file-browsers.html I don't think I bothered publishing the code; as it was just a shell script to explore an idea. Unfortunately; there were few areas in gnome at the time which could use the additional data; so there wasn't much utility in it at the time.
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