On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:01, Mathias Panzenböck <grosser.meister.mo...@gmx.net> wrote: > On 06/12/2011 08:20 AM, Bart Cerneels wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 06:51, Mathias Panzenböck >> <grosser.meister.mo...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> I wrote my own taglib extensions for a few file formats. Is there a clean >>> way to load them into >>> amarok without patching taglib/taglib-extras? Would I have to change >>> amaroks source or can I somehow >>> install them on my system so that they get automatically dynamically loaded? >>> >>> After I've tested them I'll see if I can send them to the taglib-extras >>> project. The file types with >>> added read-only support of a few tags are: s3m, it and xm. >>> >>> Here is what I've done so far: >>> https://bitbucket.org/panzi/taglib-mod >>> >>> Some parts of this (mainly the build system) are just copied from >>> taglib-extras with a >>> search+replace for a few identifiers (extras -> mod). >>> >>> -panzi >> >> Oh wow, nice. >> I don't know any details about taglibs plugins, so can't help you with >> loading. But certainly get them into upstream. > > There is a problem: These file types have no easy way to determine the song > length. You'd need to > dummy-interperte them to find that out. I will not write any code for that, > but the Xine and > GStreamer Phonon backends do know the length of the songs! (The GStremer > backend sometimes only sees > half the song (and does not support seeking), but that's another story.) > > Would it be somehow possible to use Phonon to determine the song length (if > audioProperties()->length() == 0)? It would be ok form me if it would only be > determined the moment > the file starts playing. After all the progess bar is displayed correctly > then, just not the song > length in the playlist. >
I guess we'll just need to handle that in phonon. If we miss some data from taglib (in this case the play-length) we can get it from other sources, like phonon while playing. We do similar for streams with their metadata. _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
