Re: Sound Juicer change...

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le dimanche 19 mars 2006 �8:56 +0000, Ross Burton a �it :
> On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 19:01 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > > So that's what I want to do.  If I get this into 2.14.1 then people
> > > shipping 2.14 can have a Sound Juicer that correctly tags MP3 files,
> > > otherwise it's broken.
> > 
> > Why is it broken right now? Isn't it fixable?
> 
> Sound Juicer currently tells users how to create a MP3 profile if they want
> to encode to MP3 files.  This pipeline uses LAME, and it turns out that Lame
> is just fundamentally broken for tagging: IIRC it only supports ID3v1 tags
> (which are very limited) and whilst it writes 4K blocks for writing ID3v2
> tags into, has no way of going back and actually writing them.  This
> results in freaky LAMELAMELAME chunks in the middle of MPEG data, meaning no
> decent tags and occasional decoding problems.
> 
> The solution is to use id3mux (in gst-ugly) or taglibid3mux (in -bad, but
> will be promoted to -good soon and aliased to id3mux).  However few people
> actually have these plugins at the moment, thus the suggestion for SJ to
> host a private id3mux (a copy of taglibid3mux) and use it if a system plugin
> isn't available.

If taglibid3mux will be promoted to -good soon, then people will have
the plugin and I don't really see the point of adding this to
sound-juicer (apart from releasing a new tarball in the next few days
for this issue).

I'm not really fond of this, but other people in the release team might
agree with you.

Vincent

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