Re: [Muine] Song information dialog

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 15:27 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 18:53 +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> > > The editing functionality wouldn't need to be suitable for mass-tagging of
> > > files (that's *really* functionality that belongs inside a separate app);
> > > however, it would for example provide an easy way to rename single album
> > > or track titles (e.g. to fix spelling errors) or to add some missing
> > > information (e.g. year of release).
> > 
> > Agreed. We first need a tag editing backend for that, though. 
> 
> You looking to write your own? Or would you consider using Gstreamer
> 0.8's metadata stuff?

We're not using gstreamer atm, as it's still not quite usable for
everyday use in my own humble opinion.. so that means we can't use their
metadata stuff either. However ..

> I'm not a particularly skilled programmer, but tagging in where I've
> done the most work[1]. There is a library out there called TagLib, which
> abstracts tagging ID3v2, Vorbis & FLAC tags. Its in C++, but provides
> some C bindings. What about some C# tagging libs? Do any exist? Or does
> Xine have tagging?

.. however that TagLib stuff looks damn good! I'm going to do some
hacking to make Muine use that soon .. 


Cheers,

Jorn