Planet SoC

This is another post about collection backends in Amarok. The others posts explained the switch to MySQL embedded and tried to address some of the concerns. Jefferai also wrote a few things about Nepomuk in Amarok (and why it will not fully replace the sql based collections) which I want to comment on and add to.

This is another post about collection backends in Amarok. The others posts explained the switch to MySQL embedded and tried to address some of the concerns. Jefferai also wrote a few things about Nepomuk in Amarok (and why it will not fully replace the sql based collections) which I want to comment on and add to.

Again too long since my last blog post. For those who are new to my blog: I (DanielW in IRC) am the GSoC student working on bringing Nepomuk into Amarok.
So what has happend the last weeks? Amarok now writes statistics back to Nepomuk (playcount, last played date and so on). With the nepomuk search client and kio slave in playground you can search files for that (list for example all files played more than 10 times).
But what I really want to talk about are “real persistent playlists”:
Thanks to the new Filewatch service (already in svn (trunk and 4.1 branch))  Nepomuk can now track movements of files and update the metadata connected to them. (it uses KDirNotify and can only track file movements done from KDE applications).
I am using this in Amarok to have playlists which still work after renaming/moving files. This means you can:

First: Sorry, I planed to blog more often about my GSoC project. I don’t feel very good when blogging in english. But as Thiago “forced” us to blog here an update:
Let’s start with something to look at:

Isn’t it nice? Ratings from Dolphin in Amarok
Yeah, you will be able to rate your songs in Dolphin and see the ratings in Amarok or vice versa. They share the same data in Nepomuk. (I will publish in Amarok Wiki which ontologies are used, so that you can make use of it in your scripts or applications.)

Well, this is just another blog from a GSoCer. As official start of this years Summer of Code is on Monday I finally installed this blog to tell other SoCers and everyone else who could be interested about my experiences, problems (eh mean achievements) and ideas over the next months. Yes I know, it is locking boring it is the WordPress default theme. I am not really a design guy.
I will implement Nepomuk (Semantic Desktop) features into the upcoming version 2 of Amarok the great KDE music player . So this brings together the exciting Nepomuk project, Amarok and music. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?