The Library class

[balhoofd]

Hello,

I'm tinkering a bit with writing a scraper for my movies and series and needed a database solution. I figured since I already use Beets, I might as well use the functionality you already written to access a database. I've checked the docs for devs but here's what I don't really understand or I'm looking at it wrong and was hoping to get some clarification here.

My purpose is to have a database of my movies and series and Library looks like what I need. Now, from the docs it would seems I should start with Item

Each Item object represents a song or track. (We use the more generic term item because, one day, beets might support non-music media.)

A movie or episode is a non-music media.

But when I check the source code for Item it says Represent a song or track. and has a bunch of fields related to songs. So inheriting seems wierd to make a Movie or Episode class and I feel I should inherit LibModel

Is Item an unfortunate chosen name or am I wrong in my assessment?

[Serene-Arc]

Hi! It says 'one day' because we currently don't support non-music media. Beets is set up to handle music, and the library class is built around that assumption, as well as around Musicbrainz data and formats. Because of that, it might take a considerable amount of effort to be able to use the beets code for movies and TV shows.

Beets is based on sqlite though; it might be simpler to use a library that gets data from IMDB and write your own database handler that is as simple or as complicated as you need.

[balhoofd]

I have written a scraper that works similar to the importer of Beets, I'm looking for solutions to store that data. Beets has already a handler that can communicate with SQL and that's the part I don't want to write.

I mean, I could in theory just use dbcore and write my own Library but I was checking if I could use existing code. Hence why I came across Item.

Yes, indeed it says 'one day' but it threw me off since Item has now all these fields for songs and then 'one day' one would need to rename Item or make a new Song class with every song specific field transferred to Song. This seems like a lot of trouble than just naming Item Song from the beginnen.

Again, I might be looking at this the wrong way.

[Serene-Arc]

Sorry, I'm not sure what to tell you. You can look up the person who wrote that comment and ask them if you'd like, but afaik there are no plans to expand the purview of beets at the moment.

[balhoofd]

I know. Just figuring out how to begin with my little project.

Guess I'll just inherit LibModel and see from there.

Thanks for taking an interest.