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Tuesday, April 29. 2008

Ceiling Cat is watching you tag!

In the beginning, the benevolent Ceiling Cat saw that Amarok 2 required tagging abilities, and He saw that it was sorely lacking in both quality and scope. And lo! a solution was presented, in the form of our very own Summer of KDE student Teo, who will be joining the Amarok squad and create the tagging solutions for Amarok 2!

My name is Teo Mrnjavac and I study computer science at the University of Trieste, Italy. My initial proposal was to implement mass tagging in Amarok 2, but givent the current state of things I will have to do a bit of porting to implement basic tagging support as well. While keeping as much as possible of Amarok's existing interface intact, the goal is to implement an unobtrusive and simple, yet powerful interface with the underlying algorithms to mass process the tags and file names consistently on top of the collection browser and to download track information from a remote database.

The key to simplifying the usually clunky rename-from-tags or extract-tags-from-filenames functionality would be a visual layout bar with movable items representing the elements of the filename's syntax. Ultimately, every user, regardless of his tech savvy, should be able to have a consistently and cleanly tagged collection with only a few clicks.

Greetings

Teo

In short, Teo: Welcome!