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Subject: Re: ID3 tags on WAV files?
From: Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date: 2005-08-22 16:30:46
Message-ID: 200508221830.46816.wheeler () kde ! org
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On Monday 22 August 2005 17:44, you wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be any other standard for how tags should be
> applied to a WAV file. Having the ability to store tags in all
> formats is useful. WAV is the common intermediate format when
> transcoding between formats so it is quite valuable to store tags in
> the file.
I'm not saying that it wouldn't be nice if there was a standard metadata
format for wav files -- simply that there isn't one and TagLib isn't the
place to solve that problem.
> Another issue I encountered is that some of my FLAC files used the
> extension ".flac" while others used ".fla". I have heard that the
> extensions .flac, .fla, and .flc are in use. However, TagLib rejects
> the file if it doesn't have a .flac extension.
TagLib's file type resolution is very dumb (and documented as such). The
correct way to do things is to actually do mime-type inspection, but since
most application development frameworks provide that already I didn't think
it worth duplicating such in TagLib.
Possibly on thing to shed a little light on both of these issues is that
TagLib isn't meant to be a ready-made tagger. It's a toolkit for developing
applications that work with tags. Both of the things above are issues that
are easily resolvable using TagLib as a toolkit, but aren'tconsidered
relevant for the library itself.
-Scott
--
If the answer is "more lawyers" then the question shouldn't have been asked.
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