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Freedbwise type of custom application...

We are looking at a custom system for tagging, cataloguing, searching, etc. audio files of French cultural radio broadcast sessions... in a way similar to how things are organized around freedb for standard CD music numbers management purposes.

Is it therefore possible to set up a specific freedb-like type of database that would be customized to radio specific information and then have foobar2000 to automatically extract/feed tag information from this database?

In another word, can foobar2000 be linked to a customized database that is not freedb?

Thank you so much for your help!

radionysos@yahoo.fr

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Yes, this is possible if one writes a plugin to get the infos from this specific database (this is also the way, the freedb support is implemented).

Best regards,
~ Florian

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Thanks Florian!

additionnal questions though...

1) What developing tool should be used for developing such a utility? Are they foolbar2000 built in?

2) How much expertise is needed? Do you need to be a confirmed developer or can anyone pretty good computer litterate can survive it?

3) What db should we be using for the central db? Would we need to entirely develop such a db from scratch (ie. SQL) or can we start from a freedb model and simply customize it to our own needs?

Kind Regards,

radionysos

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1) What developing tool should be used for developing such a utility? Are they foolbar2000 built in?

2) How much expertise is needed? Do you need to be a confirmed developer or can anyone pretty good computer litterate can survive it?

All foobar2000 plugins written in C/C++ and are based on foobar2000's great SDK (which is avaliable at the main page). You can use MSFT's Visual Studio as development tool.

foosion wrote a small plugin development tutorial and there are tons of plugins with source code available.


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3) What db should we be using for the central db? Would we need to entirely develop such a db from scratch (ie. SQL) or can we start from a freedb model and simply customize it to our own needs?

freedb uses files as database and I think that the development effort with using such an approach is much bigger, than using a already existing database (like the public domain database sqlite) which provides SQL for querying the data.

Best regards,
~ Florian

Freedbwise type of custom application...

Reply #4 –
thanks for your answer Florian!

This is perfect answer and the quickest ever one I've seen so far!!