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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Categorized databaseRe: Categorized database
From: Paul Louden <paulthenerd_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:08:21 -0600 Jason Voegele wrote: > With Rockbox now supporting more than just audio file formats, including > pictures and videos, I wanted to explore the idea of expanding the "Database" > feature to cover those other file types too. This would allow for browsing and > searching pictures and videos in the same way that is currently possible for > audio files. Videos and images require a plugin to be displayed, they aren't handled by the existing core playback system. While video may be sometime in the future, until that time, there isn't a codec for dealing with their metadata either. In fact, I'm not even sure there is metadata for the container our current supported video formats is in. I'm also not sure I see a tangible benefit to being able to "search" for images simply to display them on a tiny screen. A well organized filetree should work for this most of the time. The database is mostly a tool that helps streamline playlist generation / playback. With videos and images you're usually accessing a single file, not queuing many. Will the database can surely be made to handle both in time, I'm not sure it's entirely worth it. > To that end, I thought that the top level menu of > the Database might be a listing of various categories of media. For example: > > Music > Audiobooks > Podcasts > Pictures > Videos > > For Music / Audiobooks / Podcasts couldn't you simply use genres? "Music" is all genres but Audiobook and Podcast. Basically, the top level menu is already customizable. Received on 2009-01-27 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |