V5 development progress - Indexing and search for MP3 music files

[David]

Zoom Search Engine v5.0 introduces a new feature that allows users to search for MP3 files like those used by Winamp or iTunes. Searching is carried out by using metadata associated with the file. MP3 files are capable of storing textual data to provide more information about the MP3 as well as technical metadata in the file that details the MP3 conversion parameter such as bitrate, sampling rate, song duration, etc. The MP3Info plugin extracts this metadata and allow Zoom to index this metadata according to its configuration. Although it is most likely that the technical information is present, it is quite common for the informative metadata to be missing from these files

Preliminary documentation on using this new MP3 indexing plugin is available here.

At the moment the plug-in is temporarily available here,
http://www.wrensoft.com/ftp/mp3info_beta.zip
but once the final release is made it will be on the plugin page.

[AG!]

Hello,

Say if I have a 25 min journey to work and I quickly want to search for an mp3 file <25 mins, can it be done. What about when the user only has xMB left on their mp3 player, can they search for all files under xMB?

Does the plugin support streaming audio?

Thanks

[Ray]

There is currently no support for range-based searching (ie. x < y, etc.)

Streaming media is a vague question since there are so many different formats and types of streaming. Zoom can not spider index files which are served on protocols besides http:// and https:// (or file://) so formats requiring a different protocol such as mtts:// etc, would not be indexed via the spider indexer.

You can technically stream MP3 files (depending on the software used) and so, you could index the file itself either via a http link in spider mode or from a local folder in offline mode.