Why do we need a shared (physically the same) medialibrary? Isn't the diffrences what makes some music players more powerful than others? To unify the media library would most likely lead to some music players getting less powerful than their current state unless they store metadata in some secondary location, which seems like a hackisch approach. Do enough people switch music players often enough to make this feasible? If people switch music players that often, then maybe it's not sharing the medialib that should have the developers attention, but rather the rest of the music player that should be fixed so that its users decides to stay.
A common way of accessing _basic_ metadata, and controlling _basic_ playback is not a bad idea though. For XMMS2, Banshee and Rhythmbox this can already be seen within the gnome panel applet called Music Applet, http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kuliniew/music-applet/ , in the sense that music applet unifies their diffrences. So go ahead and specify some unified dbus api for extracting such information, and issuing such commands and everyone will be happy. If it adds anything to the discussion, XMMS2 project has recently had some interesting discussions about querying a media library. http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Collections http://exodus.xmms.se/~andersg/playlists-and-stuff.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~theefer/reply-anders-collections.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~andersg/playlists-and-stuff-reply-reply.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~theefer/second-reply-anders-collections.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~andersg/playlists-and-stuff-reply-reply-reply-reply.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~theefer/third-reply-anders-collections.txt http://exodus.xmms.se/~andersg/playlists-and-stuff-reply-reply-reply-reply-reply-reply.txt -- Daniel Svensson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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