Re: Request for GNOME2.8 inclusion: Cantus 3

[Samuel Abels <spam debain org>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 11:56, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> On mån, 2004-04-05 at 10:52 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 01:17, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > > søn, 04.04.2004 kl. 21.41 +0200, skrev Samuel:
> 
> Doesn't Rhythmbox provide this functionality?

As far as I know, it does not yet, but will as soon as gstreamer does.
So it will probably go into GNOME2.8.

>  And since Rhythmbox
> (afaik) is going into 2.8 we would then have one application that will
> both play the music and change the tags and then we'll have another
> application that can only change the tags.

I see three reasons:

Firstly, for Rhythmbox, you need to organize your files into a database.
Assuming your files are completely unsorted (which is probable when they
do not have tags) or you use XMMS to play the files you may not want a
database.

Secondly, I doubt that Rhythmbox adds mass tagging capabilities. This
would probably "bloat" the whole application.

And thirdly, Cantus is a general tagger, Plugins for non-audio tags can
also be added.

Anyway, I am the author of Cantus, so maybe I see reasons that are not
really there ;-). I am open for comments.

Thanks,
-Samuel