Suppose that our current client has a video and music store. Not the e-commerce one, just the regular one – just around the corner. And now he wants to expand his business to e-commerce. He wants to sell the products online. But his IT department said that this will be tricky – because they need to hire someone to fill up the database with the product names and their metadata. And that is the place where you come in and tell them that you can extract titles and authors from the MP3 files that are available as samples.Now let's see how that can be achieved.
Before you start getting deeper into the task, please refer to the How to set up the extracting request handler recipe in Chapter 1, Apache Solr Configuration, which will guide you through the process of configuring Solr to use Apache Tika.