IMMS is a xmms plugin that assigns weights to mp3 and other audio files. The IMMS binaries rely on a few 3rd party (opensource) applications and libraries, such as SQLite3, sox and a few other external libraries (such as FFTW).

1. Compiling IMMS

To get IMMS to parse the id3 tags of mp3 requires that either
TagLib or ID3Lib is installed and that sox is available with mp3
support.

2. Installing SOX with mp3

See mp3.txt#2 (*installing SOX with mp3 support*)

3. Compiling IMMS

IMMS requires several 3rd party packages and headers to be installed:

* XMMS or BMP
* SQLite 3.0
* PCRE
* glib 2.0 
* FFTW 3.0
* TagLib (preferred) or id3lib/libvorbis
* SoX (with support for mp3/ogg/etc, see #2)

The IMMS home page is at http://www.luminal.org/wiki/index.php/IMMS/

4. Querying the IMMS database

IMMS tracks weights of audio files in an SQLite3 database. The tables are
created in the datafile ~/.imms/imms.db, which can be queried
interactively via:

bash$ sqlite3 ~/.imms/imms.db

A. Select audio files with a rating higher than 100

bash$ sqlite3 ~/.imms/imms2.db 'SELECT path \
    FROM Identify i, Rating r WHERE i.uid = r.uid AND rating > 100;'