The upstream author of eyeD3 seems very active, so I'm copying him to this message. I'm sure he's in a better position than me to comment, and maybe he can help convert Quod Libet from id3lib to eyeD3.
* Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-03 18:04]: > retitle 307540 Use eyeD3 rather than id3lib > tags 307540 + help > thanks > > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 23:13 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-03 21:37]: > > > retitle -1 Please drop python-id3lib and use python-eyed3 instead > > > > Joe, I took a brief look at quodlibet and you can get rid of most of > > the nasty code in formats/mp3.py by switching to eyeD3. eyeD3 also > > supports Unicode and is maintained unlike python-id3lib. > > I'm not sure what "nasty" code you refer to; the nastiest bit is the > huge mapping tables for ID3 frame IDs into Quod Libet tag names and TCON > IDs into genres, which we'd still need. > > As indicated at http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/ticket/3 I've looked > at eyeD3 and found it completely lacking in documentation. I poked > around it for a few hours, but found no easy way to manipulate frames at > the level QL wants, and no way at all to support multivalued frames. I'd > also like to keep enough control over COMM frames to do the QuodLibet:: > namespace trick we use to support unrestricted tags in MP3s. > > I've reopened the ticket since the abandoning of python-id3lib makes it > an issue again, but don't have time to work on it myself. Anyone more > familiar with eyeD3 is encouraged to contribute, either by fixing QL or > writing documentation for eyeD3. > > An aside about ID3 tags and encodings: > > "Unicode support" is not going to magically appear when people switch to > eyeD3; anything using libid3-3.8.3 for reading/writing is going to > continue to be broken (#213239 among others). This includes Beep, Grip, > and EasyTag. I don't know if libid3tag (which GStreamer uses) properly > supports it either. The millions of broken files in the wild are also > going to remain broken, and need special-casing in tag readers/editors > that don't want to suck. > > Given that fact, Quod Libet ignores the encoding flag for ID3 tags > anyway, and just uses UTF-8. It already supports Unicode tags, about as > well as anything can given the mess of ID3. Retitling appropriately. > -- > Joe Wreschnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
