Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-03-01 Thread JavaJens
But apart from the issue with gettin the information about the album artist or so, I too would like to have the ability to add something to the database. The reason why I would like to do this is because my brother asked me to implement something to disable songs from beeing played, but still

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-09 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Well, true.. when you rip your own cd's or get them anywhere else you have the same issue, but with an extra (optional or so) field you can at least fix it once you have the songs in the database. I wrote a few routines (for a plugin) that fix it for a bunch, but not for all. (besides it r

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-09 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Ah yes, I know what you mean. You have the same problem with same author and different versions of the same song (eg greatest hits, live etc). Bollywood as well. It might be interesting to do that, but I think you have the same problem from freedb as well. They don't have a performing artist ei

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-08 Thread Ron Croonenberg
Well, here is why I asked: When you rip an album, you don't necessarily end up with with an album with one artist For example the album with song under pressure from Queen and Bowie. After ripping that CD you basically have two different artist names and all different track names. So you

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-08 Thread Jonathan Matthew
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ron Croonenberg wrote: > hello, > > is it possible/easy to add a field to the rhythmdb that can be use by a > plugin (without having to modify a bunch of code in the rhythmbox app)? Not in general. rhythmdb is not very flexible when it comes to entry properties, p

Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-06 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
I'm not aware of a way to do that without adding the field somewhere in rhythmdb code. The plugin is only a reflection of the public C api and as far as I know there is no api that will add a database field or do any low level parsing that I'm aware of. What field are you trying to add? sri On

[Rhythmbox-devel] adding database fields in rhythmdb

2010-01-04 Thread Ron Croonenberg
hello, is it possible/easy to add a field to the rhythmdb that can be use by a plugin (without having to modify a bunch of code in the rhythmbox app)? Ron ___ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listi