Re: libmediaart required for Tracker

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey Martyn,

On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 12:13 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just wanted to give people a heads up here.
>
> Yesterday I merged a branch I've been working on (use-libmediaart¹) into 
> Tracker's master branch.
>
> It now means libmediaart is required to build Tracker.
>
> For those unaware, libmediaart² is simply a collection of source files 
> that were in Tracker and have been exported to a separate library 
> because other projects (i.e. GNOME Music) were interested in a 
> consistent way to manage media art (e.g. embedded album art in MP3s).
>
> I added the dependency in jhbuild and it should work. You can also use
>
>    $ jhbuild buildone libmediaart
>
> and it works from my testing last night.
>
> Any questions let me know! :)

Well, for one, I'd like to understand what it does ;)

How is this different from using thumbnails to store a file's cover art?
Does it do de-duplication based on artist+album? Should box art for,
say, videos or games be saved in there as well? Or is this simply a way
to cache "this artist + this album = this pixbuf data"?

It's quite unclear to me where in the stack it lives, and whether it
should be above or below something like grilo's sources, or totem's
thumbnailer.

Cheers

> ¹ https://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/log/?h=use-libmediaart
> ² https://git.gnome.org/browse/libmediaart/tree/