[gst-devel] passing through compilation and album artist metadata

[Sébastien Barthélemy]

Hello list,

I'm using gstreamer together with scons to convert my music library
(mostly flac files) to mp3 I can listen to in iTunes.

This is done through the following command, ran by scons:

cmd = Command(tgt, src,
    'gst-launch-0.10 filesrc location=$SOURCE ! decodebin ! ' +
    'audioconvert ! lame vbr=new vbr-quality=4 ! id3v2mux ! ' +
    'filesink location=$TARGET')

I noticed that the mp3 files produced that way are missing the
"TCMP=1" and "TPE2=Various Artists" tags, even if the source file
has the corresponding "compilation=1" and "albumartist=Various
Artists" flags. This is patent when you use iTunes, because it screws
up cover flow.

I use gstreamer 0.10.15 on ubuntu lucid lynx.

Is this a known problem? I could not find a reference in the bug
tracker nor in the archive. Maybe I am missing something?

Regards,
Sebastien