Hello all, I LIVE - Better late then never I guess. So I had a few comments on the spec, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. Comments are as follows
- I don't like the FMPS_???? syntax, but I see no way around it, nature of the beast. so o.o)b to that - We should restrict the allowed UTF-8 character set to non-control characters. I'm pretty sure nobody wants a NULL or LF/CR in an identifier. I'm not sure exactly what exceptions should be allowed in the value, such a allowing NULL delimiters or something? Beyond that I'm happy with the spec, and would be willing to implement it in Ampache. As far as adoption I should be able to add read support rather easily, but write could be more complex. It might be worth it to build an "exporter" for Ampache / Amarok that would write out this new tag format to your files in batch so that we can start to get files out there with these tags. -Karl On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm pinging you three because all of you promised to write about the > spec -- Karl had comments and ideas, the VideoLan guys wanted to voice > support -- but nobody ever did. So it's been sitting a month and a half, > and appears all but dead to everyone. > > Which is too bad, since it solves real problems and could provide real > utility to people. > > I have a strong feeling that people stopped following it when it went to > the XDG list because people couldn't be bothered to subscribe to it, > even though before that people asked me to move the discussion to a > public list. You just can't win, sometimes. > > So, I'm pestering you three again. Get this discussion going. The spec > is workable and presents a real possibility, especially given VLC's > cross-platform muscle, for adoption -- especially if we can also get > Peter from Songbird to sign off on it, since he was finally coming > around. And Banshee has pledged to follow the spec if it gets ratified. > > Karl: You've been promising to reply to it for two months...enough > dithering about. Put your ideas/concerns in email. I have them somewhere > in my Quassel backlog, but it would take hours to find. If you have a > better backlog, or if you simply remember them, then just write them > down and send them out to the xdg list. > > VLC guys: pester Karl to do his stuff (he's vollmer on FreeNode, just > keep /msg him until he does it), and when things have been worked out, > if you like what you see, say so! And if you don't, reply and say what > you feel needs to be changed. > > --Jeff > > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
