Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] libid3tag vs. libid3



El vie, 08-08-2003 a las 16:16, in7y118 public uni-hamburg de escribió:
> If you want an honest answer from somebody who tried to use this thing:
> It's an overengineered piece of crap with an API that is just shit (even if you 
> don't use the incomplete C wrapper but the native C++ interface). The 
> documentation is lacking and unordered (thanks again to doxygens easy-to-mess-
> docs-up features) and the configure stuff to correctly detect id3lib is 
> horrible, too.
> Oh, and a former maintainer (wheels) agreed that it sucks.
> 

Hmmm after a better reading of libid3tag code, I was wrong about it.. it
seems to be able to handle all new tags correctly :-P

Cheers.

> Benjamin
> 
> 
> Quoting Carlos Perelló Marín <carlos gnome org>:
> 
> > Hi people, I was looking at the libid3tag library (that is using
> > rhythmbox) and I can only see basic fields available (the ones from
> > ID3V1), it can read / write (I think) the ID3V1 && ID3V2 header but it
> > does not use the new ID3V2 fields (like the image encoding that lets us
> > store/retrieve an album photo), thus, I was looking for other libid3tag
> > libraries available and I found the libid3 one, it's written using C++
> > but has a C interface. I was talking about it at #rhythmbox channel and
> > Bastien told me that he does not like the idea of use libid3 because
> > it's an overengineered c++ library.
> > 
> > Any idea/suggestion about this issue?
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > -- 
> > Carlos Perelló Marín
> > Debian GNU/Linux Sid (PowerPC)
> > Linux Registered User #121232
> > mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org
> > http://carlos.pemas.net
> > Valencia - Spain
> > 
> 
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Carlos Perelló Marín
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Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:carlos pemas net || mailto:carlos gnome org
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia - Spain

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