[gst-devel] Tag & Metainfo

[Ronald Bultje]

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, francois.visconte wrote:
> I'm developping a kind of player and i would like to use gstreamer for
> playback. Reading documentation i have discovered that gstreamer offer
> tag metadata information backend.
> It seem to be a recent feature of gstreamer so i would like to know if
> this interface
> is usable for most usable format (mp3, ogg, flac) for now

Yes. RB uses it in some sort of following fashion:

1. set up a pipeline "filesrc location=X ! application/x-gst-metadata !
fakesink"
2. wait for the "have-tag" signal
3. cycle 1-2 for all your files

Ronald