On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Eric Zheng <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> It seems that the project that used to be advanced tagging has changed to
> a different name, "Advanced Track Management / Organization Tools", and the
> focus has shifted a bit. As far as I can tell, the main focus is now on the
> GUI editor for single/multiple tracks, rather than writing tags to file,
> correct? Does this project still entail writing tags to file though?, as I
> see that the code for writing tags with taglib is already there, but that
> there is a critical bug keeping this from being enabled
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/728197.
>
>
Yep -- we realized the description was confusing. The focus of the project
was not on writing metadata. The "tagging" in the project description was
not referring to file metadata tags but instead is referring to managing
and organizing tracks within Mixxx. Mixxx can already read tags from all
formats we support using taglib and writing tags was implemented but has
been disabled due to concurrency issues (as you pointed out).
> Would any metadata changes made using this editor be solely written to
> mixxx's own database?
>
> Yep, this is a tool for managing/organizing the DJ-related (cues, loops,
etc.) and music metadata of your library. Syncing file metadata back to the
files could be a sub-feature of this project but all that code is already
in place, it's just blocked on the aforementioned concurrency issue.
For bulk edits, is it typically the case that the selected tracks belong to
> a single album, or would this be for rapid editing for multiple unrelated
> tracks? What I mean by this is that should the user try a bulk edit, should
> a single value be taken for some tag, e.g. album name, and be written to
> all tracks (typical of standalone tagging software), or should it take a
> new value for each track?
>
>
It's up to you to propose how it should work! Make sure to outline the
various use cases and show how your design serves them.
I would say that only being able to bulk-edit tracks within one album would
be quite limiting so I would suggest that your proposal handle the case
where the user wants to bulk-edit multiple unrelated tracks.
Make sure to play with the existing track editor to see what you're
starting from (or replacing).
Best regards,
RJ
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:01 AM, RJ Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric
>>
>> Great to hear you're interested in doing GSoC with Mixxx. Hope to see you
>> on IRC.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> RJ
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Eric Zheng <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> My name is Eric Zheng. I'm a junior in Computer Engineering at the
>>> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I just wanted to chime in and
>>> introduce myself. I'm interested in the advanced tagging project mentioned
>>> on the ideas page. I hope to be able to jump on IRC later this week to talk
>>> to you all about it.
>>>
>>> --Eric Zheng
>>>
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