Hi,
Several days ago, I told you that I would be very happy to find a GSoC
project useful to Baloo and its users. I asked on my blog for ideas and
I've got very interesting answers.
Somebody told me that a multimedia tagging library would be very useful
for many people. If I understand correctly the idea, such a library
would provide applications an easy way to tag multimedia files.
Such a library made me think of several features that could be
interesting to add to Baloo:
* Support for arbitrary attributes in the file search store (so that we
don't need to add explicit support for the hundreds of properties that
JPEG and MP3 files can have), if you think that it's a good idea
* File extractors for taglib, jpeg, video files, etc, if they don't
already exist (by the way, where do the file extractors live in the
Baloo source code?)
* File "injectors": this idea has been proposed by many people (and also
on the Baloo wiki I think) and consists of writing back Baloo metadata
into files that support them. For instance, audio files support tags,
authors, etc. Office files generally support authors and comments, HTML
files support tags, etc.
* "Remote" file extractors: if the user asks for it, such extractors
could be used to query IMDB for tags and attributes. This should not be
automatic as downloading web pages takes time and bandwidth, but having
a button in FileMetadataWidget to perform this task may be useful to
many people. Nepomuk had a concept of "indexing level", does a similar
concept exist in Baloo?
Do you think that these points could be subject to a GSoC project? Would
they be useful to Baloo? Such a project could be titled "Multimedia
Support in Baloo", its goal being to use Baloo for multimedia
information as extensively as it is currently used for PIM information.
Denis Steckelmacher
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