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new mediatomb fork

2016-10-20
2016-11-30
  • Adam Torgerson

    Adam Torgerson - 2016-10-20

    We have made some modifications to mediatomb for an audio product, and a fork is available here:

    https://github.com/BoulderLabs/mediatomb

    Not everything will be relevant to the wider community, but highlights include:

    • Cover art support for external files like Folder.jpg, cover.jpg, etc, to taglib/libmp4 metadata handlers.
    • Support DSF files in the taglib handler (needs associated taglib support)
    • Change the browse layout to include "Artists & Albums" and other tweaks
    • Fix a race condition with the insertBuffer in sql_storage (I also posted this patch under the patches section, as it was a reported issue)
    • Support album art embedded in FLAC files in the taglib handler
    • Make mediatomb aware of WAVE/AIFF support in taglib

    Cheers,
    Adam

     
  • buhtz

    buhtz - 2016-10-21

    Why you didn't submit that changes to the original project?

     
  • Adam Torgerson

    Adam Torgerson - 2016-10-21

    I did submit the race condition fix, which seemed the most relevant. Like I said, I don't think a lot of this will be desired changes, for example in current git FLACs are handled via libflac instead of taglib. But, if someone feels differently, it is all available.

    Also, this project has not seemed very active, so I just wanted to get something out there.

     
  • buhtz

    buhtz - 2016-10-21

    So then: What are your plans for your Fork? A name? Website, Mailinglist/Forum, Distro-packages? What is about an Debian submit?

     
  • Adam Torgerson

    Adam Torgerson - 2016-10-21

    No grand plans along those lines. This is just a fork for tracking our changes for the audio product. I expect it will not be very useful but wanted to make people aware of it.

     
  • buhtz

    buhtz - 2016-10-22

    Have you tried to submit your modifications to the original project?

     
  • Thev00d00

    Thev00d00 - 2016-11-30

    Hi Adam,

    I also have a fork, and I will be for sure stealing your taglib improvements as I was planning on implementing most of them myself.

    https://github.com/v00d00/mediatomb

     

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