[Rhythmbox-devel] tag editing

[Alex Lancaster <alexl users sourceforge net>]

>>>>> "BJM" == Brian J Murrell  writes:

BJM> Am I missing some library or is there still no way to update the
BJM> (MP3) tag info from within RB?  Will there ever be?  If not, or
BJM> until there is, how about a button on the track Properties dialog
BJM> that launches a tag editor on the given file?

There is experimental write support, so, yes, there is planned to be
support, from the FAQ
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/faq.html):

 Some mp3s are not detected properly by GStreamer. Rhythmbox supports
 id3 tag editing as an experimental feature. This is a feature that
 will be supported at some point in the future. Use the
 --enable-tag-writing flag to configure to enable it, at your own risk
 obviously.

But in practice, right now there are problems with tag writing in the
gstreamer backend:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330483

It has worked for some versions of gstreamer 0.8 in the past with
mixed results, but doesn't yet work for gstreamer 0.10.

Alex