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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That is great to hear, I just wanted to clarify that point.

Thanks!

Jim


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Andrew Hayzen <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Hi,
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> There is no reason for us using the database for the metadata, we plan
> to remove as much of the database as possible and directly query
> mediascanner.
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> Although we will need to track recently played items and playlists,
> but this can easily be done.
>
> Hope that helps, let me know if any other information is required.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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> On 26/11/13 17:35, Jim Hodapp wrote:
> > Reply is inline below:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Thomas Strehl
> > <thomas.strehl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> following up the mediascanner/music app vUDS session last week I
> >> had a look at the music app trying to figure out which API it
> >> requires from mediascanner. From what I can see it's at least the
> >> file name, title, artist, album, thumbnail, year, track number,
> >> duration and genre if available that is needed by music app to
> >> initialize/sync the DB. Is there anything I missed? If not, we'll
> >> be working on providing such an API including qml bindings so
> >> that music app will work with refactored mediascanner.
> >>
> >> Later, as step two, we might want to go further and store
> >> duplicate less information in music app DB, so we'd need
> >> functions for: - getting all music - getting all artists -
> >> getting all songs from one artist - getting all covers from one
> >> artist - getting all albums - getting all songs for a given
> >> album - getting all genres - getting all songs of a given genre
> >>
> >
> > Is there a specific reason why this data must be duplicated in a
> > local DB for the music app at all? I would think the music app
> > could always directly query the media scanner's database?
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Anyway, let's start with first step. Is there anything I didn't
> >> pay attention to?
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
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