Hi Ville. Ville Lindholm, 09.07.2007 07:31: > I've now more or less finished the CD importing feature, the patch is > in #648. I'm sure it requires some testing still, but it's > functionally complete.
Thanks for your work! > Meanwhile I'm finally starting work on a very wanted feature: a better > tag editor. I've always liked the interface for Quod Libet, so I would > like to have that as a main inspiration. Good idea. > Personally I think the "Tags from filename" feature is unneeded and > probably not very accurate, so I'd like to skip that. Please don’t. This is one of the features I use the most in EasyTag, since my directory and file naming structure is more accurate than predefined tags most of the time. > Instead I'd like > to add another tab, called something like "Convert encoding". This > would be a way for the user to tell exaile exactly what kind of > encoding the tags are in. I don’t think that users should be bothered with that to them unknown thingy called "character encoding". Have a look at EasyTag and how it handles it; it uses Unicode only when necessary and otherwise ISO-8859-1 as specified in ID3v2 2.3[0]. (The most recent version 2.1.1 also introduces ID3v2 2.4[1] but I have other problems with that version so I cannot tell if this is an improvement.) > So if your tags are in Finnish and you get > ??? instead of special characters, you can tell exaile what encoding > they are in. No offense, but how do you expect users to know the correct encoding? Not even automated tools can tell that with absolute accuracy. (You cannot, for example, definitely tell, that a string is UTF-8 encoded.) > Also, there could be a button to convert these tags into > Unicode once you've sorted out the encoding, so they'll always display > correctly. I think this should be done in the background without bothering the user, but YMMV. Regards, Mathias [0] http://www.id3.org/id3v2.3.0#line-118 [1] http://www.id3.org/id3v2.4.0-structure#line-362 -- debian/rules
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