Re: [Easytag-mailing] ET problems

[Ville Ranki <ville ranki iki fi>]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > For easytag it takes 5-10 seconds to write each tag. Does ET read &  
> > write the WHOLE file or what could cause it?
> > ...
>
> At least with ID3v2 that's unavoidable, since it's a variable length tag 
> at the beginning of the file. [1]

Ok, so the problem is that the tag may change the size of the file, and
causes the file to be fully read & written. Looks like this can't be
avoided :/

Maybe i should try to run ET on the server machine over ssh/X.

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Ville Ranki <ville ranki iki fi>
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