Re: [Easytag-mailing] Libid3tag instead of buggy id3lib

[Jérôme COUDERC <easytag gmail com>]

Hi Alexey,

   Thanks a lot for your patch.
I've just replaced a g_try_malloc0 by g_malloc0 as the first function 
doesn't seem to exist on my glib/gtk 2.4.8...

Else, all seem to work correctly for me ;-)
Do you know if there is a swith to force writing id3v2 tag to the 2.3 
version (sometimes requested by people)?
I think the answer is no to the following question, but do you know if 
there are functions in this library to get header informations (bitrate, 
...)? (I know the taglib allow it for example)

Regards,
Jerome



Alexey Illarionov wrote, the 18.08.2006 23:28 :

> Hi, all
>
>   Easytag uses id3lib library which does not develop for a long time. This
> library works only with id3v2.3 tags and besides contains many bugs. As many
> modern programs use id3 v2.4 tags, I have decided to try to rewrite tag 
> processing in Easytag using lid3tag (http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/). 
>   I have chosen this library as it is written completly on C, it is small, fast, 
> supports all versions of id3 tags, and have very good interface.
>   I have tried to keep all available functionality of Easytag. But now it is reads
> all v1 and v2 tags of any version. Another major differences is that Easytag 
> with libid3tag writes id3v2.4 tags instead of id3v2.3. Also it is possible to use 
> UTF-8 unicode for writing, and to use crc32 and compression in tags.
>   I know, that the author had plans on use of taglib library. But I do not know 
> as this idea is realized.  In any case I proposed the given patch as an 
> alternative to taglib.
>   The patch for the Easytag 1.99.12 is there: http://mirror.orionet.ru/shmool/easytag-1.99.12-libid3tag.patch.gz
>
> PS: You should execute autoheader && aclocal && autoconf && automake 
> after patching.
>
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