Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] how to update song properties

[Joshua Haberman <joshua haberman com>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 11:49, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 23:03, James J Myers wrote:
> > I'm trying to update song properties, e.g. Genre or Artist.
> > Either the changes don't stick or I can't even edit the field (Artist).
> > Is there a way to do this?  I didn't find anything in the docs.
> 
> Not yet...I've mainly finished the changes Rhythmbox needed to support
> it, but we're still waiting on GStreamer to actually do the tag writing.

Does that mean Gstreamer support for reading and writing tags is close
to actually being usable?  And monkey-media/stream-info will be
obsolete?

Do the Gstreamer hackers need people to implement this functionality for
specific formats?  I'm specifically thinking about FLAC, now that I know
a thing or two about using its metadata facilities.

Josh