Re: [Tracker] Storing Metadata with files

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

Martyn Russell <martyn-bhGbAngMcJvQT0dZR+AlfA public gmane org> writes:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
> > There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Does the XMP
> > file have to have a special file name, or is the name of the described
> > file part of the XMP data itself? Googling for "xmp tracker" or "xmp
> > metatracker" was just as fruitless as searching for "xmp" on the tracker
> > wiki, so I'm a bit at a loss here...
>
> Yes we are talking about that, we even have some light support in
> libtracker-extract. See:
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/libtracker-extract/unstable/libtracker-extract-XMP.html


Hmm. To me that looks like I'm actually quite restricted in what
metadata I can put into tracker using XMP sidecar files. Am I right that
I will *not* be able to e.g. insert user defined tags using sidecars?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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