[mythtv] MythMusic: MetaLibrarian RFC

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Wed Mar 23 19:32:16 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 23 March 2005 04:25 am, Simon Kenyon wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:37, thor wrote:
> >  So ... uhm ... for mythmusic, where exactly are we on 2.3 versus 2.4
> > tags? As I understand things, we're now writing tags that almost nothing
> > else can understand. Is that accurate? If so, can we improve on that  :-)
> >   ?
>
> i submitted a bug on bugzilla (decided to do it there as well so there was
> a record of it). isaac closed it as "won't fix". says that other programs
> should use the standard. a rather childish response, but there you go :-(
>
> my suggestion is that we use a library that will work properly (read and
> write 2.3 tags) and use that.

Id3v2.4 is almost 5 years old at this point.  Supporting creation of old, 
broken stuff (id3v2.3) is stupid.  If you don't like it, use another program 
to manage your metadata.

Isaac


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