I'm working on something together with some other community members
where I think I would like to export information from another
application (which doesn't support tagging) and write it to the tags
using one of the standard tagging tools.
I don't want to go into any details at this time, but let's say that:
1. I have a database with a lot of metadata and it's tied to the path
of the files
2. I can export the database content as XML or some other text format
3. The export will look the same independent if it's a MP3, FLAC, WMA
file.
As an example, the export could look like this:
Code:
--------------------
<file path="/mnt/music/SomeArtist/SomeTrack.flac">
<attribute id="ARTIST">Some Artist</attribute>
<attribute id="ALBUM">Some Album</attribute>
<attribute id="TITLE">Some Track</attribute>
</file>
--------------------
Is there some way current or future versions of puddletag would be able
to import this and use it to write the values to the tags of the files
?
I'm trying to avoid getting into the tagging software business myself
but I suspect that people would like to write the metadata to the tags
to make the files usable in portable players.
It might also be useful to have some kind of options when importing
this "tagging data/script" in puddletag that specifies if you like to:
- Remove existing tags and add the ones in the XML
- Keep existing tags and add those in the XML and overwrite any tags
that is both in XML and file
- Keep existing tags and add those in the XML but don't overwrite any
tags that is both in XML and file
The exact XML format or other text format used isn't important, I just
wanted to post the idea since I suspect we are going to need a tagging
tool that support something like this in the project I'm working in.
I'm not sure if something like comma separated text files would be
preferred over XML to make it easier to edit in a text editor.
By the way, which platforms are puddletag supported on ?
Is it only Linux or is OSX and Windows also supported ?
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