Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 05, 2004 03:11 AM
Even in the database and metadata department, Rhythmbox has a long long way to go to even approach the basic functions of XMMS. For example, while you can read the metadata of an MP3 track and it appears to edit, your edits have no effect, and if you do edit the metadata (using XMMS for example) there is no way to tell Rhythmbox to reload (and re-catalog) the file, you have to wipe it clean and start again.
Although I know there is such a thing for Windows, the Linux audio app feature I really need is to compare the SHA code to some network database and come back with metadata -- I have many mislabelled tunes and it seems silly and counter-Linux to have all of us entering in the same data independently. Of course, the SHA code needs to be taken over the sound portion only (ie, not include the metadata tags) which would then also be a foolproof way to know if two almost-identical MP3s were copies or unique transcriptions.
All in all, while Rhythmbox may be going in the right direction, it's only a few baby-steps down the track, and as someone else said, if you organize your files by genre/album dirs, you can get much of the same sorting function with the XMMS sort button, only it will also equalize, cross-fade, normalize, meta-edit<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
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Re:Madman + xmms better
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 05, 2004 03:11 AMAlthough I know there is such a thing for Windows, the Linux audio app feature I really need is to compare the SHA code to some network database and come back with metadata -- I have many mislabelled tunes and it seems silly and counter-Linux to have all of us entering in the same data independently. Of course, the SHA code needs to be taken over the sound portion only (ie, not include the metadata tags) which would then also be a foolproof way to know if two almost-identical MP3s were copies or unique transcriptions.
All in all, while Rhythmbox may be going in the right direction, it's only a few baby-steps down the track, and as someone else said, if you organize your files by genre/album dirs, you can get much of the same sorting function with the XMMS sort button, only it will also equalize, cross-fade, normalize, meta-edit<nobr> <wbr></nobr>...
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