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[[liblicense]] is a software tool developed by Creative Commons to reduce the implementation time for this functionality. It already includes the logic to read (and write) metadata information from a wide variety of file formats.
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'''[[liblicense]]''' is a software tool developed by Creative Commons to reduce the implementation time for this functionality. It already includes the logic to read (and write) metadata information from a wide variety of file formats.
  
 
Also, if you want to see how this is implemented in Mono (what Banshee is written in) check out their [http://banshee-project.org/download/development/ source code] or just view the [http://git.gnome.org/cgit/banshee/tree/src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Collection/LicenseInfo.cs src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Collection/LicenseInfo.cs] file
 
Also, if you want to see how this is implemented in Mono (what Banshee is written in) check out their [http://banshee-project.org/download/development/ source code] or just view the [http://git.gnome.org/cgit/banshee/tree/src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Collection/LicenseInfo.cs src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Collection/LicenseInfo.cs] file

Latest revision as of 21:19, 20 August 2009

What

As more and more content creators begin embedding license information into the metadata of media files the amount of benefit from displaying this information increases.

The open source audio/video media player Banshee has already implemented this functionality:

Banshee-cc.png

How

liblicense is a software tool developed by Creative Commons to reduce the implementation time for this functionality. It already includes the logic to read (and write) metadata information from a wide variety of file formats.

Also, if you want to see how this is implemented in Mono (what Banshee is written in) check out their source code or just view the src/Core/Banshee.Core/Banshee.Collection/LicenseInfo.cs file

See Also

Metadata Embedding Example
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