Re: [Easytag-mailing] ET problems

[Adrian Bunk <bunk stusta de>]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 04:56:36PM +0300, Ville Ranki wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have about 700 gigs of music with about 30% of it untagged. I've
> been testing various tagging tools, and Easytag seems to be the
> best option.
>
> Unfortunately it has some really major problems:
>
>  - Tagging is SLOW. I have the music on sftp/fuse mounted
> share, which works pretty fast (i can watch live video etc from it).
> 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]

> Ville Ranki

cu
Adrian

[1] ID3v2.4 also supports tags at the end of the file, but don't expect
    many programs being able to read them

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