Re: G2.10 Module Proposal: Sound Juicer

[Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>]

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 15:20, Ross Burton wrote:
> I'm belatedly proposing Sound Juicer for GNOME 2.10.

I am using 0.5.14 a lot, so I'd like to drop a few comments. Generally,
Sound Juicer works fine. I found some flaws though, I checked most of
the issues for bugzilla bugs and opened new ones where I thought
necessary a while ago. Since I am using 0.5.14 some of these bugs may
already be fixed in CVS.

What I really would like to see fixed is

- handling of CDs that do not exist in Musicbrainz already. I remember
having CDs that caused Sound Juicer just to show nothing in the track
list (not even the track numbers). This happened with approx. 5 out of
the ~100 CDs that I scanned.
IIRC bugzilla does already know that one.

- Multi-Artist CD support.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158167
Musicbrainz uses a "Artist / Song" song title format and SoundJuicer
strips the Slash away. Instead, there should be a sane replacement
character at least, or even better, real ID3V2 (or OGG) multi artist
tags.

- if Sound Juicer is going to replace the GNOME CD player then
self-written track lists need to be handled better. Manually entered
track lists are currently forgotten as soon as the CD is ejected. I
guess it is already planned to support submitting CDs to Musicbrainz?
Keeping self-made CDs in mind, there should probably even be a local
storage in addition for track lists that a user does not want to be
published.

Finally, if SoundJuicer is not going to replace GNOME CD I would prefer
the current window layout (one big "Extract" button) over the CD player
layout
(http://www.burtonini.com/computing/screenshots/sj2-mockup-main-2.png).
as the current layout looks much simpler. (Also, it would be redundant
to the GNOME CD player otherwise.)

-Samuel
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