GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 552992
Video Metadata
Last modified: 2020-03-17 08:26:55 UTC
Feature Request Discussed this back when banshee-1 was released but I think I forgot to file a bug. Basically I think it would be great if banshee had more comprehensive video metadata sorting. I think banshee rocks and I want to use it to sort my video library too but its my library is too big and banshee is not the best for sorting videos atm. I think banshee should sort videos based on category, Music Videos, Tv Shows and Movies. Each category sorts videos using different metadata, tv shows for example might sort using episode, series number, series name, episode number,episode name etc. Sorting video metadata in categories might hep speed up banshee's database. Well I'm only taking a guess there as sorting music by artist album and song increases the speed. Also It would be nice when transferring videos to ipods and other similar mp3 players to have the videos go into the right categories, the most popular being tv show, movies, and music videos. Also post 1.4 will bring telepathy integration hopefully which will be cool as it allows some inventive things such as streaming currently playing songs to friends or sharing your library/sections of your library to friends. Maybe there will be some integration with telepathy status. If the video metadata work described above is added then you might have some cool integration like having your status change to watching a movie, watching a tv show, watching a music video etc. Well thats my two cents, Thanks for all the great work on banshee... Its amazing how fast the rewrite is progressing.
I just wanted to vocalize my agreement with this. For TV shows, I've been using Disc# for season# and Track# for episode#, but it would be nice if this metadata had a proper category. Things like "Track Artist" generally don't make sense for videos. I still don't use Banshee for video as much as I'd like to, but this would definitely help.
potential patch available at http://gitorious.org/banshee/hawkes-mainline/commit/a384103e65d129d4d3990483e585fe939e2fa330
Alex, could you attach it as a patch? It makes easier for maintainers to review and track the patches.
Created attachment 163393 [details] [review] Patch to add editing of video metadata. Potential patch for this bug
Review of attachment 163393 [details] [review]: We don't want the tv-related columns in the default column controller since then they appear in the music sources, no? Look at the VideoLibrarySource and you'll see how it changes some of the columns via the XML column controller bit -- also done in PodcastSource to add a column or three.
Created attachment 172360 [details] [review] Patch for handling video-specific metadata Here’s a replacement patch. Now the metadata columns are only selectable in the video library. There are a couple of things I’m not happy with though, look for HACK in the patch. Improvements/suggestions on these are particularly desired. Also, it probably doesn’t add the columns in BansheeDbFormatMigrator.cs probably. Manually doing so should be obvious, but that needs to be updated, too.
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.