On 22 Dec 2017, at 20:45, 1.61803 wrote:
I remember you wrote a guide for plugin development. Could a plugin that scans music by directories and maybe reads m3u files be feasible in pyobjc?
Probably, but where would the `m3u` files come from? For what it’s worth, you could almost do this today by telling the File & Folder scanner to read Text Lines from an `m3u` file. It’s not the same as it scanning a _folder_ full of such files, but close.
I think a plug-in that gets the metadata directly from the files would be far more useful for more situations. I mentioned MediaInfo, but for the most common cases, Spotlight can provide the data you’d need.
Pros: The indexing work is already done. You just need to request the data.
Cons: It doesn’t support as many media types, and wouldn’t work for the 7 people that have Spotlight disabled.
I do like this general idea more as I think about it. You could have a stand-alone media scanning plug-in that ditches reliance on the XML file, then create separate plug-ins for various players. I’m not sure how you’d support what I just added though (playing files that aren’t on your system anywhere).
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