[vorbis] Experimental info editor for winamp

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Warren Spits wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Dickson" <crdic at yahoo.com>
> 
> > Another thing: I noticed that the VCE plugin's dialog is non-modal,
> whereas
> > the Winamp MP3 comment editor is modal. This means you can have several
> open
> > simultaneously, and you can still interact with Winamp's main window. This
> > is a neat feature if it can be made to work properly, but right now it
> > behaves rather strangely. I find that if I open a playlist of .ogg files,
> > then open the comment editor for one track (A), then open a second comment
> > editor window for another track (B), then close the B editor, then close
> the
> > A editor, the editor for B will pop up again all by itself. I have not
> > looked at (or even downloaded) the plugin code, but I would guess that it
> > doesn't really support multiple simultaneous dialogs, and gets confused.
> 
> The next release of the integrated winamp/vce will be implemented as a modal
> dialog box.
> 
> Warren.
> 
If you select multiple MP3's in winamp and invoke the tag editor (press
Alt-3) it show the editor for the first one, then if you press OK it shows
the dialog for the next file, if you press cancel it doesn't.  I suppose
this is winamp behavoir: call the plugin with a file, wait till it returns
and continue depending on the status it returned(?).

Maybe this can be used when you implement some multiple file editing
support in the VCE: the winamp plugin when will instantly "enqueue" the
file in VCE and return succefully; VCE will run in another thread (spawned
if not running); VCE will allow to e.g. set the album of all files at
once.

This will work well if the winamp API allows the plugin to update the
title/length info of a file not currently playing - if not the user will
have to press Ctrl-Alt-E after multiple file edit to re-read their data.

In any case this will do one more cool thing that the MP3 plugin doesn't
do ;-).


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben at crosswinds.net>
                 (also scben at t2,cben at tx in Technion)

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