MusiK documentation

MusiK is Kowari's demo application. It does seem to have problems with some Mp3 metadata in iTunes but the supplied Mp3 in the data directory works. The UI is still a little rough (you have to scroll up the panel divider in OS X, for example). The point though is to show how to write an application using Kowari and the speed at querying, loading, etc.

MusiK (Music Player for Kowari).

Kowari now uses JID3 - A Java ID3 Class Library Implementation (in CVS) and it seems to do a better job of not dying when parsing the ID3 tags.

AudioMan meets Kowari

AudioMan and Kowari "The only problem is the ID3 parser implementation, I guess it chokes on my iTunes-tagged files. I’m not aware of any Java ID3 lib that gets this right, let’s hope Ryan’s jid3rL can solve this."

"About AudioMan(ager), I’m considering if I should use Kowari. I always liked the idea of storing the AudioManager data as triples, but Kowari looks big and complex to me, at least for the moment. However, Kowari would nicely fit into Durham. I’d imagine the existing MP3 content handler could be modified to use the jid3rL parser, and additional handlers be created for XPSF, M3U, Ogg, etc.

For now AudioManager will stick with the Jena API (as I was already using it and Kowari provides some Jena interfaces anyway), and I’ll get working on MusicBrainz integration."