Hello, Nick! On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 01:59 -0400, nikosapi wrote: > I found a really cool python library called mutagen than can edit the > metadata of almost any filetype! The best part is that it appends to > the tags, you don't have to completely erase them to write new tags > (this is much more useful than vorbiscomment). > > I've re-written libtagupdate.py using mutagen and it seems to work > quite well. As a consequence it removes the need for the vorbis-tools > and eyeD3 dependencies. > > I also quickly implemented it in libipodsync.py to detect filelengths, > the only filetype I've found so far that it can't detect is avi but > that's not playable on the iPod anyway. I think it might also be > possible to do cover art extraction with this tool so that would > potentially eliminate the need for pymad and of-course, mplayer as > well. > > This seemed (at least to me) too good to be true and sadly it might > be... The problem is that it's licensed under the GPLv2. I've spoken > with the lead developer and he's not too fond of the GPLv3. Here's > what he had to say: > > <piman> You can use Mutagen in a program licensed under "GPLv2 or > later", but then only under the terms of GPLv2. We don't have plans to > switch to GPLv3. > > Attached is the new libtagupdate.py and the patch for libipodsync, I > hope you guys like it!
Because of the license problems, I'll currently leave this one out of the SVN repository. Maybe you can ask mutagen's upstream if they want to dual-license it under GPLv2 and GPLv3 or simply under "GPLv2 or later". Thomas _______________________________________________ gpodder-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/gpodder-devel
