MrSinatra;574741 Wrote:
>
> so if i understand what you guys are saying, the intention is to devise
> a system where a file can be uniquely identified to SBS and continuously
> tracked even if it were to be moved around, retagged, etc, correct?
>
Yes
MrSinatra;574741 Wrote:
>
> and to stress test this system, you are seeing how best to identify
> duplicates, so that later you can be confident that SBS won't
> misidentify one file as being another file that in reality, it really
> isn't... yes?
>
Yes, the purpose is to get help testing it with all possible variations
of encodings/file formats and to make sure it's unique enough in a large
library so two songs doesn't get the same identity.
MrSinatra;574741 Wrote:
>
> once confident that SBS can uniquely identify a given file, SBS can
> store stats and other data about the file that don't have to be in the
> file or its tag. right?
>
Yes, I'm not sure standard SBS is going to do it but there are plans to
use it in some third party stuff.
MrSinatra;574741 Wrote:
>
> i'm all for that, but i just hope there will be some kind of "Cache
> clearing" method to be able to tell SBS to forget the info collected if
> the user desires, and/or a way to import/export it to other installs.
>
The reason to have it as a third party add-on is that you don't need to
use it if you don't like it. Assuming it's fast enough it should be safe
to recalculate the identity each time a track is scanned, so SBS can
keep deleting its database contents during a full rescan but we will be
able to have additional tables with persistent metadata/statistics which
can be reconnected to the correct tracks after/during the scanning.
If it isn't fast enough, we need to implement some caching mechanism or
optimize the performance in some other way but let's handle that after
we know it's needed. At the moment the focus is to make sure the
identification process is good enough.
Export/import possibilities for metadata/statistics entered manually is
always important, but the main reason for that is to make it possible to
take a backup or to export it for usage in some other application. In
addition to this it of course also has to be possible to clear all
metadata/statistics if you like to start over from the beginning.
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