Re: Common music database?

["James \"Doc\" Livingston" <doclivingston gmail com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:50 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Another thing I need is what additional common metadata is needed in the 
> Audio section of the spec :
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fshared_2dfilemetadata_2dspec
> 
> (some of you already mentioned "playcount". Another might be 
> Audio.Lyrics if I can get Tracker to download lyrics for a music file 
> when its indexed!)

Looking at what RB currently uses, and might use in the not too distant
future.

Gotten from the file itself:
* Track and Disc number (and possibly disc total track count)
* Duration
* ReplayGain adjustments
* Performer

User metadata:
* play count
* time of last play
* rating (probably scaled 0.0 - 1.0 is best)
* "first seen" (to show the user's "new" music)

We're also using an actual date, not just the year, since several
formats (e.g. vorbis comments) support that.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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