Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 2135 from 2003/2/24
From: po-RNO
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analogkid wrote:
I would like to have a MP3 and FLAC tagging software like MP3Tag on Windows.
There is RNOTags by jPV, which is pretty ok. But it doesn't support autofill by online services like Discogs or Musicbrainz, it's a bit sluggish for tagging many files at once and it supports only MP3, support for FLAC or OggVorbis is for me manditory.
I started to implement FLAC support on RNOTags, but it's a bit mess because I didn't plan it well enough originally :) It's still quite unfinished, but maybe I should continue with it. IIRC OggVorbis is a bit PITA format for writing and I think I wasn't that keen to implement it (especially when I don't use that format myself), but I should refresh my memory regarding it.
I guess I could look for the online support too...
How it feels sluggish with many files for you? Is it user interface or design that feels sluggish, or writing speed to files?
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connor wrote:
I like https://aminet.net/package/mus/edit/MP3TagEditor but it does not support other sound formats. It was created by Michal Rybinski who was a member of the MorphOS Team. Maybe does one of them have the source of it and can continue it?
MP3TagEditor and other programs on our platforms have some critical issues and that's why I wrote my own program in the first place.
1) MP3TagEditor is unstable and hits in the debug log in certain situations. It's always a risk to write files with it and you'll better to reboot the machine after using it to avoid any further implications.
2) MP3TagEditor, as all other programs on Amiga/MorphOS too, don't preserve all ID3V2 frames that can exist in MP3 files. They only preserve a limited set of frames that they can edit, but all other information is lost from files when you edit an existing tag with these programs. It isn't an issue with new files without any existing tags, but I see it as a major issue when editing files that already have tags. This applies on most programs on other platforms too, I guess I'll have to try how that MP3Tag program on Windows handles them.
3) You can't embed/export cover images from MP3 files with the existing MorphOS/Amiga programs.
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Because it is much beter performing than the sluggish Hollywood programs.
You can't say Hollywood programs would be sluggish per se. It's a programming/scripting language as any other language, and the biggest impact on the speed is skills of a coder and code design/quality, just like with any language.
I know that I could make RNOTags writing speed quite a bit faster, but my initial design was to make it extra safe with low memory footprint, and it's still been fast enough for my use. But please let me know if this is why you consider RNOTags sluggish or is it something else that feels slow?
