OK, you are right. Now I understand what you mean :-). I think we talked past (aneinander vorbei geredet) ;-) because I too think it would be the best to store it in the extended attributes.
Am 03.08.2015 7:40 nachm. schrieb Stefan Derkits <ste...@derkits.at>: > > Hello Konrad, > > On 2015-08-03 11:33, Ing. Konrad Renner wrote: > > The same is true for a Plasma music application: if it uses its own > > system for ratings, a possible new "Plasma multimedia application" > > cannot use this informations and so a user has to define them for each > > application. And I think the user will not be satisified, if he has to > > create the same ratings for the same files, in each application he uses. > > > > > > I think to reinvent the wheel for each application cannot be the goal. > > of course, no don't reinvent the wheel, that doesn't make sense. > But using baloo for ratings would only be the KDE/Plasma way, the even > more compatible way is to use the Freedesktop specifications and store > ratings in id3 tags/vorbis comments/ape tags/... according to [0]. > > Of course we would have to enable baloo to read those tags, no idea if > it could be changed to also write the tags (although media players would > write them directly via Taglib). > > Stefan > > [0] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/tree/media-player/specification.txt?h=media-player > > > _______________________________________________ > kde-multimedia mailing list > kde-multime...@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
