Hi, Thank you for the clarification. I've already started looking at the uPnP implementation for Gnome. Cheers, Eren <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:59, Alex Merry <<a href="mailto:kde@randomguy3.me.uk">kde@randomguy3.me.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 04/02/12 18:39, Eren Inan Canpolat wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I wonder if the MPRIS project has any plans for defining a standard interface for controlling media libraries. This could include re-scanning media files that may have changed, editing metadata for the media files, file-name operations, etc. </blockquote> </div> I think most of us consider such a thing out-of-scope for MPRIS, from what's been said in past discussions. What would probably be better would be a separate interface that interacted well with MPRIS.<div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> As a side question I would like to ask if there is any implementation of a media library that uses a client-server model? I haven't come across any. </blockquote> </div> There is the MediaServer2 interface (<a href="http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec" target="_blank">http://live.gnome.org/Rygel/MediaServer2Spec</a>), although that only provides access to a media library, not management. Note that there is potential for MPRIS track ids to refer to objects that implement org.gnome.UPnP.MediaItem2, for example. Alex PS: the proper list is at <a href="http://freedesktop.org" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a>; the videolan one is officially retired. </blockquote></div>