Re: [Muine] NEW PRELEASE: 0.8.1pre1

[Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org>]

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Christian E. Kaas:
> >>> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 20:20:18 +0100, Jorn Baayen <jbaayen gnome org> 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - Only list complete albums in album list. An album is complete
> >>>>   if the number of tracks equals the "total number of tracks" tag.
> >>>>   (We are "mild"- 3 more or less will be fine too)
> >>>
> Let me start by summarizing.. looking at the tools in my Linux 
> distribution I see nowhere that I can specify the "total number of 
> tracks"-tag. More specifically, I often use Grip to automate the ripping 
> and encoding process, however, the program is not capable of writing 
> this tag. Also the command-line tool oggenc does not have an option for 
> specifying this tag.
> 
> Now, if this is common practice for most Linux users (and I bet it is) 
> would it then be wise to enforce such a policy: "Use the easytag tool on 
> your music collection or go play with GConf keys to make Muine work for 
> you!" ??

Most distributions, or the major ones anyway (Ubuntu and Fedora/RedHat
tested), come with sound-juicer instead of grip these days. Sound-juicer
tags files with total tracks metadata. So it'll work out of the box
there.

> Seen with the eyes of a typical user I propose another solution: What 
> about keeping old practice and instead make it possible for the user in 
> the UI to easily remove incomplete albums from the album list? Or is 
> there some extraordinary reason for not including this functionality?

That's UI bloat- problems need to be tackled at their root instead of
introducing UI to work around them.

Cheers,
Jorn