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[Paul van Tilburg <paul@xxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 02:07:35PM +0100, Olivier Tilloy wrote:
> As is common, the thread is big and a lot of the discussions are
> completely off topic, but some of them are quite interesting (see
> e.g. http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-February/msg00203.html
> !), and to me the bottom line is that the basic technical
> requirements for a good media center haven't changed in the course
> of three years.

Indeed.  And I agree with the point that Tracker or similar concepts
are the way to go.  Why have every app scrape and gather its media
metadata.

> Things have moved forward in the right direction and we now have a
> good number of solid foundations to base our work on, but the
> ecosystem still lacks fast and reliable media indexing (particularly
> for videos). In that regard the media scanner we're working on has a
> very important role to play I believe. Let's get to work!

So, I was talking a bit about this on the IRC yesterday with some of
you.  Metadata seems to be lacking most in the video area, but 
certainly has some issue in music too.  More and more I view the
media scanner (yes, I still have to check it out, pardon my ignorance)
as a separate thing.  I might just write a tool that builds upon
the scanner that can actually tag the stuff (avi, mkv, ... support this
these days) and reveals difference. 

For example, my music library is tagged via musicbrainz.  This is a
community constructed library that might improve/correct tags.  Such a
tool would help in saying: hey the files of this album have outdated/
different tags, or: this video lacks the director/synopsis tag, shall a
commit.  In this sense the media scanner could help a lot too.  (As in,
if you don't want to type in all the information by yourself, you need a
scraper anyway.)

Paul

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