Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Ankur Sethi <get.me.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I have decided to go with a two pronged approach, the same one that > > the SkyOS Index Feeder uses. A database for full-text indexing, and > > filesystem attributes for files such as MP3s. I submitted my > > proposal > > just a few minutes ago. Thanks to everyone who took an interest :) > From what I have read in this very long thread, mimicking the SkyOS > Index Feeder is probably a good idea. Yes, definitely. > Also you may recall earlier in this thread I mentioned Army Knife in > relation to your media player idea. Well I think it might also prove > useful for mp3 attribute extraction for this project. In other words > maybe code from Army Knife could be usable in the mp3 search plugin. Army Knife is using TagLib (http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/taglib.html) for this. I also have ID3v2 code that I have written some time ago that could be put under the MIT if the need arises. Bye, Axel.