On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Brett Thomas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 08:50:23AM -0500, Scott Thomas Haug wrote:
>
> The Winamp test doesn't mean much, unless they've added id3v2 support,
> recently. Last I checked, they just skipped stuff in the id3v2 frame,
> entirely.
I'm pretty sure that's all winamp does, too. But it still plays. :) I've
posted a slightly more informative report to bugzilla, along with a link to a
file that has an offending tag.
> >My assumption is that you aren't using the id3lib, available on the id3.com
>
> I assume that you mean the id3.org website. Check this out:
Oops. s/\.com/\.org/
>
> We donate the space to host id3.org and id3v2.org (and id3v3.org, if
> anything ever happens, there). :)
>
Forgive my ignorance. Looks like I'm preaching to the choir... :)
>
> I don't remember why we made the decision not to use the id3lib stuff,
> and roll our own. It may have been because we originally had the
> philosophy that we were trying to avoid users having to get 57
> not-commonly-installed libraries before they could compile (this is
> more of an issue for Linux than Windows, obviously). Anyone remember
> why we did this? Generally speaking, I'm a big fan of integrating
> existing stuff, rather than rewriting it. At the time, there wasn't
> much id3v2 support, so we MAY have decided to roll our own so that
> there would be two complete implementations, to help hammer out
> compatability issues.
Well, the id3v2 development has been stagnant for almost a year, at least
according to the id3.org site and the date of the last id3lib update. As
mentioned previously, it seems that musicmatch has taken over the id3lib
project, but I haven't been able to find anything on their site that mentions
continued development with the library. This itch is a particularly important
one to me, as I have quite a few songs with large id3v2 tags and no linux
player (to my knowledge) that plays them correctly. I'll continue hacking
id3lib to make it usable in linux, and if anyone decides that using id3lib in
freeamp would be a good idea, I'd be glad to help with this effort.
>
> Brett
> ---
> Vice President, Technology, EMusic.com, Inc. -- http://www.emusic.com
Thanks for your response.
-Scott
