From: Todd Z. <tm...@po...> - 2009-01-13 04:15:04
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Dudy Kohen wrote: >> I'll be back home on Tuesday and I'll try to make a few more tests >> with iTunes then and post some results for comparison. If you have >> some examples or a working and non-working tag that you could post, >> that might help too. > > How should I post tags? I was thinking of just posting a small mp3 clip (or even something with a free license) as a demonstration of the problem. I still never made time to do a bunch of tests. :( > Although I wouldn't be surprised if it is a iPod bug, but from what > I understand from the documentation, that is the way to go. I > looked in id3v2 mailing list, and apparently this is a bug in > iTunes, what do we do now? > http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c461562DA.1080205%40fastmail.fm%3e Maybe we can find exactly the minimum hacking that needs to be added to any id3v2.4 lyrics frames and do that within gtkpod? It seems wrong to have libid3tag write out tags that follow an iTunes bug, if that's what would be needed. >> Are you sure reviving libid3tag is worth the effort? Maybe it'd be >> better to port gtkpod to use gstreamer or some other library that's >> more actively maintained? > > What library supports all that we need and has C bindings? I looked > but haven't found anything worthwhile. I don't honestly know. My first guess would be gstreamer, but I don't know enough to say whether it would be suitable or not. Maybe I'm just being a wishful thinker. -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before I criticize a man, I walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he's a mile away and barefoot. |