[Gtkpod-devel] How to use wave files with gtkpod?

[Nicola F. <nic...@va...>]

Hello list

I googled around, read the manuals of gtkpod etc. - but only ephpod
seems to be able to import WAV to my iPod (though I did not yet try
gnupod, maybe it will work).

Still, there is another thing: I have encoded many files with grip to
flac lossless format, and grip has added id3 tags in front of them
(which is sort of illegal AFAIK considering the flac header
specification - altough xmms flac plugin doesn't complain, neither does
command line flac decompression and the files are ok after
decompression, no garbage).

I found out right now that flac >= 1.1.0 (at least 1.0.2 doesn't) seems
to support vorbis-like comments - so this should be the correct way to
go (without forgetting a hack for not-so-clean id3 tags :).

So having id3-like tags in wav files is quite interesting, because then
there is no guessing needed for the import in the iPod.

Still, there need to be found some way to store metadata in a wave file
- does anybody know a tool for linux which allows editing of metadata in
wave files?

Are there already any plans doing something like this for gtkpod? If
not, some pointer to the source would be nice, in case I'd try to hack
around a bit on gtkpod... :)

regards
nicola