Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] how to update song properties

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 18:24, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:49, Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:03, James J Myers wrote:
> > > I'm trying to update song properties, e.g. Genre or Artist.
> > > Either the changes don't stick or I can't even edit the field (Artist).
> > > Is there a way to do this?  I didn't find anything in the docs.
> > 
> > Not yet...I've mainly finished the changes Rhythmbox needed to support
> > it, but we're still waiting on GStreamer to actually do the tag writing.
> 
> Does that mean Gstreamer support for reading and writing tags is close
> to actually being usable? 

I've heard rumors about it recently, but I don't really know anything
more :)

>  And monkey-media/stream-info will be obsolete?

Yeah.

> Do the Gstreamer hackers need people to implement this functionality for
> specific formats?  I'm specifically thinking about FLAC, now that I know
> a thing or two about using its metadata facilities.

That'd be cool.