FMPS

[Karl Vollmer]

Hello all,

  I LIVE - Better late then never I guess. So I had a few comments on
the spec, but overall I'm pretty happy with it. Comments are as
follows

- I don't like the FMPS_???? syntax, but I see no way around it,
nature of the beast. so o.o)b to that

- We should restrict the allowed UTF-8 character set to non-control
characters. I'm pretty sure nobody wants a NULL or LF/CR in an
identifier. I'm not sure exactly what exceptions should be allowed in
the value, such a allowing NULL delimiters or something?

Beyond that I'm happy with the spec, and would be willing to implement
it in Ampache. As far as adoption I should be able to add read support
rather easily, but write could be more complex. It might be worth it
to build an "exporter" for Ampache / Amarok that would write out this
new tag format to your files in batch so that we can start to get
files out there with these tags.

-Karl

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm pinging you three because all of you promised to write about the
> spec -- Karl had comments and ideas, the VideoLan guys wanted to voice
> support -- but nobody ever did. So it's been sitting a month and a half,
> and appears all but dead to everyone.
>
> Which is too bad, since it solves real problems and could provide real
> utility to people.
>
> I have a strong feeling that people stopped following it when it went to
> the XDG list because people couldn't be bothered to subscribe to it,
> even though before that people asked me to move the discussion to a
> public list. You just can't win, sometimes.
>
> So, I'm pestering you three again. Get this discussion going. The spec
> is workable and presents a real possibility, especially given VLC's
> cross-platform muscle, for adoption -- especially if we can also get
> Peter from Songbird to sign off on it, since he was finally coming
> around. And Banshee has pledged to follow the spec if it gets ratified.
>
> Karl: You've been promising to reply to it for two months...enough
> dithering about. Put your ideas/concerns in email. I have them somewhere
> in my Quassel backlog, but it would take hours to find. If you have a
> better backlog, or if you simply remember them, then just write them
> down and send them out to the xdg list.
>
> VLC guys: pester Karl to do his stuff (he's vollmer on FreeNode, just
> keep /msg him until he does it), and when things have been worked out,
> if you like what you see, say so! And if you don't, reply and say what
> you feel needs to be changed.
>
> --Jeff
>
>