[advocacy] A HOW-TO for adapting ID3/MP3 softwares?

[Moritz Grimm]

Daniel James wrote:
> 
> > So either the authors of ID3
> > editors make a bold step forward and offer an alternative GUI for
> > .ogg files (I doubt (m)any designed their GUI for MP3 files with
> > that amount of flexibility in mind), or you as the user simply
> > switch to one of the dedicated .ogg taggers. Different purpose,
> > different tool ... that'd make sense.
> 
> Well, speaking as a mere user I would expect to find the comment
> editing in the same place as I was used to with MP3. So if I was
> encoding mp3 (for some strange reason) I would see the extra comment
> boxes offered when using Vorbis greyed out.

That's an interesting approach the other way round, I like it. There's a
caveat, though - current MP3 taggers certainly don't have anything to
grey out, so we're back to writing/designing new GUIs for taggers that
shall support .ogg in a useful manner. They'd mutate from MP3 taggers to
Ogg taggers with MP3 support. I wonder how many developers want to take
this road - to me it'd sound less messy to just write a new tool with
the new purpose in mind.

<p>Moritz
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