[mythtv] MythMusic: MetaLibrarian RFC

[Matt]

> I'd rather just drop support for writing id3 tags and encoding to mp3,
> personally.  There's really no reason to have it in mythmusic.
> 

hmmmm... reminds me of Sony
(http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117910,00.asp).  I think
it's a bad  judgment call to write-off the feature to encode into mp3.
 98% of my music library is MP3 and the rest is AAC.  I do _not_ want
to introduce another format, or have to re-rip all my CD's into Ogg or
anythings else.  Is it ok to have multiple formats... sure, but why? 
Audio compression formats are a dime a dozen, yet the majority of
users have no desire to switch from using MP3.  Also, I have an
iPod... I don't want Ogg and I never will.  Personally, this doesn't
matter to me much either way because I don't use myth to rip, but I
think it's a nice feature that any PVR with a music management plugin
should have.  Why degress?  Unfortunantly, I'm not a developer but can
it honestly be _that_ hard to accomplish these goals using MP3 versus
other formats?  I mean, a large large percentage of open source and
commercial software over the past 3 years have been directly related
to the boom of MP3s so it doesn't seem like it's got to be that hard.

Either way... I don't chime in much, and in all honesty, whatever you
decide I won't mind, but I just think you can't throw out the idea of
encoding into MP3's that easily.


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:39:36 -0500, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 05:15 am, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > If there is suitible unrest however, I will undertake to write a simple
> > ID3v2.3 tagger specifically for Myth. It is relativly trivial to write
> > (I've read the specs till blue in the face), so should not pose any
> > great challenge to me.
> 
> I'd rather just drop support for writing id3 tags and encoding to mp3,
> personally.  There's really no reason to have it in mythmusic.
> 
> If you're using myth as a standalone system, then the default encoding
> mechanisms (ogg + flac) work much better, have sane metadata systems, better
> quality, etc.  If you're not using myth as a standalone system, then there's
> plenty of other tools available that'll do the job better and more
> efficiently.
> 
> Isaac
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