Re: [Muine] [Patch] Better album defining

[Yo'av Moshe <black_jesus myrealbox com>]

Viet Yen Nguyen wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:00, iain wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > The way I see it, it is solving a problem by, as some of you have
> > > already said, working around it. Workarounds should not be done unless
> > > there is no choice, for example closed source specs. 
> > >      
> > Two points:
> > a) Software which forces you to do something a certain way is not nice
> > software
> > b) Be liberal in what you accept and strict in what you output.
> >
> > What would Mozilla be like if it enforced strict HTML compliance?
> > Not very good, but then, the real and definite solution to that would be
> > to just correct the pages...
> >    
>
> You have made a point there with this striking analogy. However, as far
> as I know there is no program that is able to correct HTML errors in
> order to make it fully comply with the W3C specs. 
>
> For music tags there is, one of those programs is called easytag. Since
> this program exists, and does work well to a certain degree and/or
> perspective, a workaround would not be necessary. 
>
> What perhaps could be nice is to let Muine cooperate with Easytag, so
> that when needed for proper tagging, Easytag will be activated for its
> use. 
>
> Viet Yen
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I just wanted to say that besides the fact it's not easy to decide which 
tag is the correct one, I think that letting a music /player/ fix tags 
is really not a good idea, if you want it to happen without interrupting 
the user. I mean, I wouldn't want to import files into Muine and after a 
while noticed it changed my files. As far as I can think of it, music 
players, and Muine also, should just play the music files as good as 
they can, and do no writing on them. That, as you said, is left for 
program like EasyTag (which is a great program also) to do.

Yo'av.