PriorArt

This page contains disorganized notes regarding what we can learn from other projects that have gone before.

Library Management

Well-respected OSS media players and how they've accomplished library management.

Banshee

Written in C#. Browse source. Checkout: svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/banshee/trunk/ng-banshee

• Banshee.Services/Banshee.Database/BansheeDbConnection.cs: pragma synchronous=off for speed
• Banshee.Services/Banshee.Database/BansheeDbFormatMigrator.cs takes care of database initialization (not just migration as name would suggest); schema in InitializeFreshDatabase
  • has TrackID, ArtistID, and AlbumID with correspinding CoreTracks, CoreAlbums, and CoreArtists tables for efficient access to artists/albums; CoreTracks has indexes on ArtistID and AlbumID; CoreArtists and CoreAlbums have indexes on their names

Exaile

Written in Python. Browse source. Checkout: bzr branch lp:exaile

• Schema in sql/db.sql.
  • tracks table primary key is path (which is an integer?! -- what's going on?)
  • like Banshee, also has artist, album tables

Amarok

Written in C++. Browse source. Checkout: svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/

• half-written architecture document
• Really convoluted. Will take some time to glean things from.

Quod Libet

Need to look at this.

et cetera

• Alexandria
• autotagmp3
• pymp3tagger (sketchy)
• music-tag-filler
• Ikulo
• "Music"
• Hystrix Audio
• zicbee
• musikCube
• moosic (command-line)

Playback

Quod Libet has a Gstreamer player module that seems highly refined. It's a very tempting playbook page to steal. They even have gapless working. Check it out.

Cloning MPD

librmpd includes a "fake" MPD server for testing. Interesting! The file.

Automatic Tagging

Related autotaggers, mostly in Python:

• autotagmp3
• shagger-tagger
• albumidentify
• echonest-albumidentify
• musollo (Java)
• brainztag