Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-10-06 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 18:07, Tobias Hansen wrote: >> >> Any feedback would be highly welcome. > > Hi, > > I just had to change the album names of 200 files from different sources. If > you edit tags of so many mp3s, there are always some files with problems. I > used your newest version of i

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-28 Thread Tobias Hansen
Am 25.09.2011 18:12, schrieb Stefan Ott: I'm asking because I think it's going to be non-trivial to find people who are willing to test a new tool that solves a problem which, for many people, doesn't seem to be extremely urgent. Anyway, if somebody on this list is interested in trying it out, y

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-25 Thread Andres Mejia
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Stefan Ott wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:54, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> Draining the audio file tag reading swamp can only be a good idea. >> >> Please get some more testing done (by debian-user or where-ever) >> before you embark on this project. > > Do you th

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-25 Thread Stefan Ott
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 01:54, Paul Wise wrote: > > Draining the audio file tag reading swamp can only be a good idea. > > Please get some more testing done (by debian-user or where-ever) > before you embark on this project. Do you think it would be a reasonable approach to put together a working

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Stefan Ott wrote: > I realize that replacing a perfectly working little tool like id3 with > my mostly untested id3v2 fork might not be the nicest thing to do, but > at the moment it's the best solution I can come up with. Thus I was > wondering if any of you have

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-09-22 Thread Stefan Ott
Hello everyone On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 22:56, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > You can also drop libid3 as it is now and write a wrapper around some > better ID3 tagging library that has the same (or compatible) interface > as libid3. Also, I'd merge id3 and id3v2 into one package, or even > one binar

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-05-25 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:10:35 +0200 Stefan Ott wrote: > - Port id3v2 to libid3tag [5]. This is a different id3 tagging library > which supports v2.4 tags. I did some work in this direction but I > realized that this would require major modifications to id3v2 since > it's closely modeled ar

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-30 Thread Stefan Ott
Hi On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 00:44, Craig Small wrote: > Hello Stefan, >  As someone who has been in your situation many times (I look after more > orphans than an animal shelter) you do need to think about the longer > term. I took over psmisc in 2000, for example. > > I saw some suggested you mak

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-29 Thread Craig Small
Hello Stefan, As someone who has been in your situation many times (I look after more orphans than an animal shelter) you do need to think about the longer term. I took over psmisc in 2000, for example. I saw some suggested you make the library a basic shim to the currently developed one and that

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-28 Thread Miguel Landaeta
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Andres Mejia wrote: > I believe taglib is worth a mention here too. See [1]. Aside from id3 > tags, taglib supports many other tag formats. Also, taglib upstream > seems much more active. > > 1. http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/taglib.html It also worth to mention

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-28 Thread Stefan Ott
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:23, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise wrote: >> Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have >> the same responsibilities as upstream. >> >> Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing >> lis

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-28 Thread Stefan Ott
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:29, Adam Borowski wrote: > >> In case you are thinking of dropping libid3, the following are the >> reverse deps and reverse build-deps that would need to be ported or >> dropped. You might want to talk to their maintainers and upstreams: > > [15 packages] > But this is

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-28 Thread Andres Mejia
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have > the same responsibilities as upstream. > > Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing > list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give y

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:08:42AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I also that there are quite a few id3 related command-line tools and > libraries in Debian, it would be nice to unify all of those into one > library This makes the command line tool redundant, which is an argument for removal. Not a st

Re: What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
Since upstream is effectively dead, for Debian's purposes, you have the same responsibilities as upstream. Given the above, why not take over the upstream project. The mailing list still seems active so theoretically upstream could give you admin access to the sourceforge project and you could wor

What to do about the situation with id3v2

2011-04-27 Thread Stefan Ott
Hello my fellow maintainers and DDs I have a question concerning two of my packages: I am maintaining id3v2 [1] and libid3 [2]. For those unfamiliar with them, id3v2 is a simple command-line tool to manage ID3 tags and libid3 is the library behind it. Now, those packages suffer from some major iss