Tobias,
On 12/05/2010 11:54 AM, Tobias Rapp wrote:
Hello,
this is some rather long mail that aims to discuss about the idea to add
support for handling audio files in Shotwell. This might sound as an
inappropriate (or better: crazy) feature request for a photo manager
application but I will try to explain why this makes more sense to me
than just stick to using Rhythmbox (or some other music manager).
Thanks for the suggestion and for your explanation of why this could be
useful. We haven't thought so much about audio in Shotwell before, but
as you've pointed out, if you want to organize audio by recording
date/time, event name and so on then Shotwell could actually make sense.
Finally my main question is not if *you* will add support for audio
recordings in Shotwell but rather if you would accept patches that
implement this feature. Not sure if I will get an initial test version
up and running soon, though. Maybe there are other developers that are
interested in working on this feature, too?
Yes, I think we would accept patches. I think that audio support will
probably never be a primary goal of the Shotwell project, but for all
the reasons you've described it would be nice for it to work. I've
ticketed this here:
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2920
For 0.8 we've done a lot of work to generalize Shotwell to support both
photos and video, and with that infrastructure in place I think that
adding support for another media type shouldn't be impossibly hard.
By the way, here's a one-line hack to make Shotwell (the trunk version)
work with audio files today. In VideoSupport.vala, find the function
get_supported_file_extensions() in the VideoReader class. It contains
this line:
string[] result = { "avi", "mpg", "mov", "mts", "ogg", "ogv",
"mp4" };
Add any audio extensions you like to this list (e.g. "mp3"), then
rebuild Shotwell. Voila - you can now import your mp3 files into
Shotwell. They'll show up on the Videos page and in events. When you
double-click one, Shotwell will open Totem to play them, just like for
videos. Yes, possibly a useful hack!
Of course, this isn't the right solution since audio files should really
be listed separately, not as videos. And, a disclaimer: if you take
this approach and then we come out with actual audio support some day,
you might need to rebuild your library since Shotwell probably won't be
smart enough to recognize that all those audio files you imported as
videos should no longer appear as videos. Still, this is the low-effort
solution: it will effectively give you the feature you want today, I think.
adam
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