Perfect. Thanks for the responses.
On 12/27/06, Alex Lancaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "JR" == John Russell writes: > > JR> Frequently on this mailer when asked about tag editing people have > JR> recommended easytag which I have used succssfully for a long time. > JR> Great app. However, now that RB has tag editing I like to use > JR> that from time to time. > > I wish people would *not* recommend easytag for exactly that reason. > > JR> However, I just noticed that if a tag is edited in RB, or any > JR> gstreamer tag editing using app, the tag is not readable by either > JR> easytag or any id3lib 3.8.3 utility. I believe that easytag uses > JR> id3lib 3.8.3. > > JR> I googled around and found something about how gstreamer writes > JR> id3 V2.4 tags and that some apps can't read them. Is that the > JR> issue here? Is there any way to get them to play together? > > That's exactly the problem. Easytag relies on id3lib which is dead > upstream and only reads up to id3v2.3. Solutions are to: > > 1) Upgrade id3lib to read id3v2.4 tags (unlikely) > > 2) Upgrade easytag to use taglib (another maintained backend that > reads/writes id3v2.4). It looks there are plans in the works to do > that, but don't know the timeline, but the last discussion of it > was a while ago [1] > > 3) Use a id3v2.4 compliant tag editor like exfalso from quodlibet (it > also uses taglib) [2] > > I recommend (3), it's actually a much better tagger all round than > easytag. > > Alex > > [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=36327233 > [2] http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
