[haiku-development] Re: Defining more standard attributes
- From: Pieter Panman <pieter@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:50:29 +0100
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.
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.
But Francois is right, this really belongs to the full indexing
discussion.
Regards,
Pieter
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