Re: Database capabilities

There is an improved DB under the directory mdb.  This is in current
integration for the next release of zinf.   You can query on any type
of metadata field to create virtual playlists.   The metadata is not
fixed and can be gathered from local and remote sources.  
A release should be coming in the next few months.   




On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:33 -0400, Eric Katz wrote:
> How is the database info stored?  I'm not a great programmer, but I'd
> love to put together a better querry system.  Shouldn't it be possible
> to querry the database and return a list of just the matching songs or
> albumns or whatever?  These could then become a playlist. The
> sort-by-genre thing works ok, but it doesn't take the place of a real
> database search.
> 
> As things stand, if you want to bring up all the albumns in the genre
> "punk" from after 1980, you have to:
> 
> 1. copy all your songs to a new playlist (or you might miss some)
> 2. sort by genre
> 3. select all the punk songs and remove others
> 4. sort by year
> 5. remove all the unwanted years.
> 
> A better alternative would be to have a search engine that allows you to
> do:
> Search by: genre (Punk) and year:(>1980)
> 
> Will Zinf take python plugins? 
> 
> --eric
> 



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