[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 581756] New: [id3mux] replace with something more reliable and move to -good

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  GStreamer | gst-plugins-ugly | Ver: git
           Summary: [id3mux] replace with something more reliable and move
                    to -good
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-ugly
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: t.i.m at zen.co.uk
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: t.i.m at zen.co.uk, slomo at circular-chaos.org
     GNOME version: 2.23/2.24
   GNOME milestone: Unspecified


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #557587 +++

> I am trying to reencode them to tagged MP3 using gst-launch.
> Conversion is done, but tags are damaged (ID3v1 contain nonsense,
> ID3v2 is not created). It happens for both ASCII and
> non-ASCII/non-ISO-8859-1 comments.
> FLAC decoder seems to work correctly.
> It sometimes crashes. If it does not crash, it creates an
> MP3 with damaged ID3 tag.

The libid3tag-based id3mux should die. We need something better.

Action plan:

 - write ID3 v2.3.0 tag writer code that doesn't depend on an
   external library (work in progress)

 - move id3mux into -good using that code base

 - merge with the taglib-based id3v2mux?


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