[vorbis] WinVC - Multiple file tag editor!

[Glenn Maynard]

This doesn't have anything to do with codebook training.  Don't reply to
messages, or you'll get your thread tagged as a subthread of whatever
you replied to. :)

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:25:46PM +1300, Ross Levis wrote:
> I got tired of spending 5-10 minutes tagging every CD so I wrote a very 
> simple Win32 front-end for vorbiscomment.exe to read and write tags.  It 
> only supports the Standard tags as shown in the Winamp plugin.  I'm 
> thinking of adding support for user defined tags if I get time. 
> Download here:
> 
> http://www.StationPlaylist.com/WinVC.exe

Source? :)

> 
> Save to a folder of your choice.  Requires VorbisComment.exe in the same 
> folder or somewhere in the path.
> 
> Just click on those <> buttons beside the tags to copy the tag data to 
> all tracks.
> 
> Comments welcome.

I havn't used it yet, but you might find these screenshots helpful for
an interface:

http://zewt.org/~glenn/ed1.gif
http://zewt.org/~glenn/ed2.gif

That's an old editor with the same purpose I wrote for id3v2 a while
back.  I'll make it available to you (or anyone) if you like; I rather
like how the interface turned out.

A few caveats: 1: it's VB.  (This was the project I used to learn the
language.  I'll confirm it: Visual Basic causes cancer.)  2: It's not
really usable--it uses id3lib, which was not reliable enough for active
use the last time I tried it.  (If it's stabilized, it might be usable now.)

I posted details about the interface at one point on this list; try
searching the archives.

I wouldn't recommend shelling to vorbiscomment.  Link to the real library
(or what passes for a library); it'll be faster, you don't have to do
any parsing when reading, it might save on some charset issues, etc.

Another note, this to anyone writing tag editors: try to get
multilingual support right.  It takes effort, especially if you won't
use it yourself, and I'll help anyone that needs help (if I can).
Having multilingual support in the file format is great--but it's
useless if editors don't support it.


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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