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

[Jorg S. <Jor...@gm...>]

Hi Nicola,

> 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).

gtkpod cannot do it. There don't seem to be too many people interested
in using wav files...

> 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 :).

I'm sorry -- I'm not sure I'm getting your point here.

> 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... :)

I have no idea about the structure of a wav-file, and whether TAGs can
be stored in them or not.

As for gtkpod: I'm currently defining some kind of interface that
allows adding support to new formats to gtkpod more easily. Have a
look at the notes at the start of mp4file.c.

I don't think we should start designing ways to store metadata into
wav files if a standard does not already exists. Instead I would
prefer to improve and customize the interpretation of the filename.

Cheers,


JCS.