GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 534075
SQLite based .media.db for caching DAP metadata
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:28:10 UTC
There's more and more devices that fall in the 'mass storage dap' category, some of them with 1GB memory, some with 16GB and some with 160GB (like an iPod running rockbox). Banshee (and other media players, that I know of) index all the metadata every time the device is plugged in, that's a lot less than optimal. The idea is to create a db with all metadata present on the dap, thus only requiring to traverse the file tree and update the metadata on every connection. The schema of that db should be generic enough for all media players to use, allowing the user to switch between different media players and/or different machines without the need to reindex all the available media. Also, it should allow storing data for at least audio, video and image files. Another problem are playlists, I don't know how different daps handle those, so I don't know if it's possible to use them at all. Other information:
Bulk changing the assignee to banshee-maint@gnome.bugs to make it easier for people to get updated on all banshee bugs by following that address. It's usually quite apparent who is working on a given bug by the comments and/or patches attached.
Banshee is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes more than three years ago. Its codebase has been archived. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is being shut down) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/issues/264 for more info.