Re: Common music database?

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> 
>>
>> This has made me think of something that Rhythmbox supports, which
>> Tracker would probably be even less suited to: remote files. Rhythmbox
>> has full support for importing files from any location that gnome-vfs
>> supports, like samba shares, SFTP, etc.
>>
> 
> Tracker supports adding writable metadata to VFS files but it cant watch 
> or extract embedded metadata from them. (tracker does not use Gnome-VFS 
> but will return whatever file path and name you specify even if it is a 
> uri format or garbage!)
> 
> 

just to clarify, if the file path passed to Tracker starts with a '/' 
then  Tracker treats it as a physical file (which must exist and be 
visible to Tracker). Anything else is treated as a virtual file and no 
checks are done.


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Mr Jamie McCracken
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