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Eric Katz | 19 Sep 02:33
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Database capabilities

How is the database info stored?  I'm not a great programmer, but I'd
love to put together a better querry system.  Shouldn't it be possible
to querry the database and return a list of just the matching songs or
albumns or whatever?  These could then become a playlist. The
sort-by-genre thing works ok, but it doesn't take the place of a real
database search.

As things stand, if you want to bring up all the albumns in the genre
"punk" from after 1980, you have to:

1. copy all your songs to a new playlist (or you might miss some)
2. sort by genre
3. select all the punk songs and remove others
4. sort by year
5. remove all the unwanted years.

A better alternative would be to have a search engine that allows you to
do:
Search by: genre (Punk) and year:(>1980)

Will Zinf take python plugins? 

--eric

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Kristian G. Kvilekval | 20 Sep 22:46
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Re: Database capabilities


There is an improved DB under the directory mdb.  This is in current
integration for the next release of zinf.   You can query on any type
of metadata field to create virtual playlists.   The metadata is not
fixed and can be gathered from local and remote sources.  
A release should be coming in the next few months.   

On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:33 -0400, Eric Katz wrote:
> How is the database info stored?  I'm not a great programmer, but I'd
> love to put together a better querry system.  Shouldn't it be possible
> to querry the database and return a list of just the matching songs or
> albumns or whatever?  These could then become a playlist. The
> sort-by-genre thing works ok, but it doesn't take the place of a real
> database search.
> 
> As things stand, if you want to bring up all the albumns in the genre
> "punk" from after 1980, you have to:
> 
> 1. copy all your songs to a new playlist (or you might miss some)
> 2. sort by genre
> 3. select all the punk songs and remove others
> 4. sort by year
> 5. remove all the unwanted years.
> 
> A better alternative would be to have a search engine that allows you to
> do:
> Search by: genre (Punk) and year:(>1980)
> 
> Will Zinf take python plugins? 
>
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Salvador Gonzalez | 21 Sep 01:31

Re: Database capabilities

On Monday 20 September 2004 04:46 pm, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> There is an improved DB under the directory mdb.  This is in current
> integration for the next release of zinf.   You can query on any type
> of metadata field to create virtual playlists.   The metadata is not
> fixed and can be gathered from local and remote sources.
> A release should be coming in the next few months.
>

Will this new release fix the 'id3v2 tag changing creating a corrupted file' 
problem?

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Kristian G. Kvilekval | 22 Sep 19:17
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Re: Zinf

Thanks, I've posted an entry there.

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:33 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> Hi guys,
> please post Zinf on www.GnomeFiles.org so more GTK+ users find out about it!
> Also, please use this icon on the form when submitting the app, so its page 
> will show up with a nice icon! (upload it on your webspace)
> 
> thx,
> Eugenia 

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Salvador I. Gonzalez | 23 Sep 00:36

Re: Database capabilities

>
> Much of the tagging code was redone for the metadata makeover.
> However the tagging libraries are still the same.  Since
> I have not verified this error, I'll ask that you check this
> when release is out.
>
[SNIP]

Ok man, I'll be happy to help you track this one down, if it still exists.
It pretty much makes Zinf unusable for me, in way of cleaning up my music
tags.

Cheers.

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Greg Rezansoff | 27 Sep 17:53

Where is the source to the Vorbis Codec

I noticed that the vorbis.dll and ogg.dll that are used in Zinf differ from the sames given at Vorbis.com

Im looking for a stripped down version of the files, for decoding only, like Zinf has.

Where can I find this source???

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Kristian G. Kvilekval | 22 Sep 18:48
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Re: Database capabilities


Much of the tagging code was redone for the metadata makeover.
However the tagging libraries are still the same.  Since
I have not verified this error, I'll ask that you check this
when release is out.

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:31 -0400, Salvador Gonzalez wrote:
> On Monday 20 September 2004 04:46 pm, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> > There is an improved DB under the directory mdb.  This is in current
> > integration for the next release of zinf.   You can query on any type
> > of metadata field to create virtual playlists.   The metadata is not
> > fixed and can be gathered from local and remote sources.
> > A release should be coming in the next few months.
> >
> 
> Will this new release fix the 'id3v2 tag changing creating a corrupted file' 
> problem?
> 
> 
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