[haiku-development] Re: Defining more standard attributes

> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:31 -0500, Rene Gollent wrote:
> > There used to be a tracker add-on whose name I forget that could
> > extract ID3 tags into attributes. Something like that sound like
> > what
> > you have in mind?
>
> Yes, but then in a more general sense. You can give this application
> any
> file, and it will determine the file type. It will then extract the
> proper details from that file and save it to attributes.

it's called /bin/mimeset, though it doesn't do much for now...

> This last part could be done with some plugin system, or perhaps by
> calling applications like MediaPlayer with a command line argument.
> "MediaPlayer --update-attributes /path/to/file1 /path/to/file2"
> The reason to invoke other applications is that they already know how
> to
> get these details, and there is little reason to do this again.

Translators should know, applications might not, depending on what
format they natively support and what format are read through the
translation kit.

François.

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