Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format. How's this better than easytag? Description: viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files, using a GTK+ interface. . Currently EasyTAG supports the following features: - Viewing, editing, writing ID3 TAGs of MP3 and Ogg files, - Process all files of the selected directory, - Ability to browse subdirectories, - Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving..., - Easy directory selection with a tree browser, - Supports ID3v1, ID3v1.1, and ID3v2 tags, - Scan file for automatic tagging (using masks), - Scan tag for automatic renaming file (using masks), - Rename mp3 file, - Can apply a field (artist, title,...) to all other files, - Display MP3 header informations, - Can load a character translation file. -- Joshua Kwan
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: Description: viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files, using a GTK+ interface. Ogg files don't have ID3 tags; I trust this actually means that it uses the standard metadata tagging system of Ogg, and not ID3? -- Glenn Maynard
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: tagtool Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Pedro Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://pwp.netcabo.pt/paol/tagtool/ * License : GPL Description : tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format. Does it correctly handle Unicode encoded ID3v2 tags? Checking... No, it apparently doesn't. So I question the value of introducing yet another broken tool to the archive. Oh, another check... It seems not to handle correctly even Vorbis comments, which are UTF8 by definition. Definitely not mature enough, unless I've made some serious mistakes. -- Micha Politowski Talking has been known to lead to communication if practised carelessly. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:45:24AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: Description: viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the ID3 tags of MP3 and Ogg files, using a GTK+ interface. Ogg files don't have ID3 tags; I trust this actually means that it uses the standard metadata tagging system of Ogg, and not ID3? Yes, EasyTAG edits Ogg Vorbis tags properly. -- gram
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:45:59PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format. How's this better than easytag? Feature for feature, I think EasyTAG is probably better than tagtool. tagtool, though, was easier to use for me, and had a less cluttered interface. -- gram
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:01:44PM +0200, Michal Politowski wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:46:02 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files (commonly called tags). Tag Tool can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format. Does it correctly handle Unicode encoded ID3v2 tags? Checking... No, it apparently doesn't. The TODO file says the following, which I haven't followed up on: Make ID3v2 text encoding a preference as soon as id3lib releases an unbroken version (hopefully 2.4.0) So I question the value of introducing yet another broken tool to the archive. tagtool does work in some cases, even if not in all of them. The program is valuable to me (hence my ITP), and I'm sure it will be valuable to at least a few others. I don't think a package has to be valuable to everyone before it is allowed in the archive. It seems not to handle correctly even Vorbis comments, which are UTF8 by definition. Seemed to work fine for me. How are you testing this? Definitely not mature enough, unless I've made some serious mistakes. It seems to work fine for my music collection, and I'm sure it works fine for others as well, so I see no reason not to upload it to the archive. -- gram
Re: Bug#277193: ITP: tagtool -- tool to tag and rename MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:36:59 -0500, Graham Wilson wrote: [...] It seems not to handle correctly even Vorbis comments, which are UTF8 by definition. Seemed to work fine for me. How are you testing this? ./configure; make; make install Then opened some correctly commented files, which resulted in errors: ** (tagtool:19653): WARNING **: Invalid UTF8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text() and displayed comments cut at the first out-of-ASCII character. Then tried to change the comments, which subsequently appeared correctly only in tagtool. Now I see that actually it works correctly in a UTF-8 locale, but not in my pl_PL that uses ISO-8859-2, so I would guess there are some wrong/unnecessary conversions going on somewhere. -- Micha Politowski Talking has been known to lead to communication if practised carelessly. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
