Comment 9 for bug 911743

I like database approach because I understood maybe it's out of scope to
make Mixxx a full tag editor / music manager. But if relying in other
programs databases becomes a similar work load we might considear it again.

2012/1/7 RJ Ryan <email address hidden>

> I haven't developed the external library idea much except to know that
> it would require some serious DB schema changes.
>
> The problem with something like Banshee is .. as you've found from their
> mailing list:
> 1) The right way to talk with it is via DBus, which is Linux only and
> requires Banshee to be running.
> 2) The team discourages direct access to SQLite since they do schema
> changes often.
>
> Since the vast majority of our users aren't very technical, we need to
> make it very easy. I'm afraid this means supporting a lot of different
> external libraries. We will never be able to forget iTunes, and of
> course integrating other DJ software libraries is a great way to ease
> people's transitions to Mixxx.
>
> Picking Banshee or Clementine and saying to everyone else that they must
> use it isn't going to work well for making it easy to pick up Mixxx and
> start using it.
>
> I'll try and pin down exactly what I'm thinking about for external
> library support and write out a rough description of it.
>
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>
> Title:
> add mass and advanced tagging capabilites
>
> Status in Mixxx:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> It would be nice to be able to use mixxx as a complete mixing/organizing
> music solution. To achieve that I think one of the firsts steps would be to
> add advanced tag capabilities and mass tagging:
> -User defined tags
> -Advanced mp3 tags
> -Mass tagging
> -Filename rename based on tags and viceversa.
> -Scripting
>
> To get an idea to implement mp3tag/puddletag like features in mixxx in
> order to use only one program.
>
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