Pmetatagger-2.1 - a gtkdialog audio meta tagger
If anyone's interested I just posted exifcom in the jhead thread, which can edit the exif UserComment if it already exists. I don't have any photos with that field though, and the length of the field apparently varies between different manufacturers as well.
Hmmm. exiftags shows a lot more information than jhead. Are you dealing with jhead information the same way as information from the other taggers (searching for fields in the output)? Because it would be much easier with read-only information like that just to show the whole output...
You are right, at the moment these jpeg tools don't fit that well with pmetatagger:)
Hmmm. exiftags shows a lot more information than jhead. Are you dealing with jhead information the same way as information from the other taggers (searching for fields in the output)? Because it would be much easier with read-only information like that just to show the whole output...
You are right, at the moment these jpeg tools don't fit that well with pmetatagger:)
I'm just compiling exiv2 - it has exif write support as a library, although I'm unsure about it's binary.
I have what appears to be another bug. Using id3lib, if I open an mp3 with pmetatagger, it just shows empty tags, even though there are tags and they show up in xmms. If I put in tags, pmetatagger writes them ok (I see the new tags in xmms, and any that I didn't fill in are now missing). Does pmetatagger read mp3 tags correctly at the moment for you?
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BTW m4a works fine, so I only have a problem with id3lib
I have what appears to be another bug. Using id3lib, if I open an mp3 with pmetatagger, it just shows empty tags, even though there are tags and they show up in xmms. If I put in tags, pmetatagger writes them ok (I see the new tags in xmms, and any that I didn't fill in are now missing). Does pmetatagger read mp3 tags correctly at the moment for you?
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BTW m4a works fine, so I only have a problem with id3lib
I had a make error compiling exiv2, so I tried a slackware package, which works, although I can't quite figure out how to use it. I think it can add a new exif usercomment, but I'm not certain. I think that's really the only part of the exif tag we should be changing anyway Changing anything else would essentially have to be for deceitful purposes...
I'll look into the bugs you're posting.
I already fixed the relative path issue while I was working on putting in jhead support.
I will change it to allow typing in the directory/file selector.
The command file for opening all of a specified file type does work for me. It will open the gui with the first file found of that type and when you click ok/next the next file of that type will load into the gui.
The mp3 tagging issue you mentioned, I can't really say for sure since it seems to work okay for me. What was used as the tagger for the original files?
I already fixed the relative path issue while I was working on putting in jhead support.
I will change it to allow typing in the directory/file selector.
The command file for opening all of a specified file type does work for me. It will open the gui with the first file found of that type and when you click ok/next the next file of that type will load into the gui.
The mp3 tagging issue you mentioned, I can't really say for sure since it seems to work okay for me. What was used as the tagger for the original files?
The other feature it needs is a "skip file" button, so instead of clicking next you can move on to the next file without writing the tag.
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Yes, the command to open all the files in the directory does seem to be working now - I don't know why it wasn't before.
Is it only reading id3v2 tags with id3lib? I think that could be causing my other problem. I think the files that it doesn't read might only have v1 tags.
I also have what appears to be another bug
Tagging multiple mp3s it will copy the information from the previous file even if you tell it not to. This is very bad. It works as expected for m4a.
BTW, have you used easytag? It has a file selection gui on the left hand side and the tagging gui on the right hand side, with buttons beside each field to apply that field to all the selected files in the folder. It is very efficient. One day I have the time (not likely any time soon) I might sit down and see if I can produce a gui like that with gtkdialog. I think it would be possible.
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Yes, the command to open all the files in the directory does seem to be working now - I don't know why it wasn't before.
Is it only reading id3v2 tags with id3lib? I think that could be causing my other problem. I think the files that it doesn't read might only have v1 tags.
I also have what appears to be another bug
Tagging multiple mp3s it will copy the information from the previous file even if you tell it not to. This is very bad. It works as expected for m4a.
BTW, have you used easytag? It has a file selection gui on the left hand side and the tagging gui on the right hand side, with buttons beside each field to apply that field to all the selected files in the folder. It is very efficient. One day I have the time (not likely any time soon) I might sit down and see if I can produce a gui like that with gtkdialog. I think it would be possible.
itunes uses a different tagging system than id3v1 or id3v2. I'm not sure if AtomicParsley works on mp3s like it does with m4a. Their website doesn't mention mp3 support.
I'm pretty sure for mp3 pmetatagger will see if there's a version 1 tag and if not it will default to version 2. I'll have to look over my code again though.
Adding a skip button is a good idea and I'll work on that next.
I'll also look at the tagging multiple mp3s bug you mention.
I've never used easytag but I might take a look at it soon.
I'm pretty sure for mp3 pmetatagger will see if there's a version 1 tag and if not it will default to version 2. I'll have to look over my code again though.
Adding a skip button is a good idea and I'll work on that next.
I'll also look at the tagging multiple mp3s bug you mention.
I've never used easytag but I might take a look at it soon.
Yeah, I've thought about that since right now it's using `cut -f 2 -d ':'` to get the field info. I'll probably look into it again soon. Thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear though, the itunes tags not being read are on mp3's right? The itunes tags should be read on m4a's as long as you have AtomicParsley installed.
It should work with id3info:
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# id3info Blackbir*
*** Tag information for Blackbird Live.mp3
=== TT2 (Title/songname/content description): Blackbird Live
=== TEN (Encoded by): iTunes v4.5
=== COM (Comments): (iTunNORM)[eng]: 00002817 000002A1 00017CAD 00002B90 0001E6F0 00008D6D 000084AD 000084AD 0004A2F0 0004A2F0
=== TP1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Third Day
=== TAL (Album/Movie/Show title): Live Tour
=== TYE (Year): 2004
*** mp3 info
MPEG1/layer III
Bitrate: 128KBps
Frequency: 44KHz