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Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

Auguste Pop — 2013-05-18T00:16:11

is quite reassuring to have a quick and informative reply from developers.
great!~


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 9:20 PM, David King <amigadave< at >amigadave.com> wrote:

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Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

David King — 2013-05-17T13:20:56

Hi Auguste

On 2013-05-17 20:46, Auguste Pop <auguste< at >gmail.com> wrote:

With dconf, the dconf tool can dump and restore paths within the 
configuration database, for example:

dconf dump /org/gnome/easytag/ > easytag-settings

The above command will recursively dump the configuration settings of 
the EasyTAG settings path to a file. To restore from the same file:

cat easytag-settings dconf load /org/gnome/easytag/

Note that EasyTAG does not currently use GSettings, but that the above 
paths should stay the same (see the wip/gsettings branch for a 
preliminary implementation).


GSettings has several backends, and dconf has at least 2, so the 
application may not know precisely where the settings are stored. dconf 
follows the XDG base directory specification:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

and so stores the user configuration database under XDG_CONFIG_HOME. The 
default location of the dconf database is "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/dconf/user" 
which for most users will be "

Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

Auguste Pop — 2013-05-17T12:46:05

the main problem i have of using some binary database system to save my
configurations is i don't know how to port them to other systems.

i just no longer have a clear file/directory to copy over to newly
installed systems and have everything working as before.

as a matter of fact, i don't even know where the settings is saved, even if
i am willing to copy over large amount of unrelated binary information.
unfortunately, i still haven't seen an application telling us where their
configuration saving database saves their settings, and how to port those
settings into new systems.

on the contrary, nearly all applications using the good old clear text
configuration files explicitly tell us where our configuration is saved.

easytag is a great software. as a user, i actually don't care how the
configurations are saved. i just hope i can have a clear, easy way to port
my settings to another computer.

best regards,


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM, David King <amigadave< at >amigadave.com> wrote:

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Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

David King — 2013-05-17T12:23:48

Hi Andraž

On 2013-05-17 13:34, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie< at >codemages.net> wrote:

As a user of EasyTAG, there should be little difference between using 
GSettings and using the current configuration system, besides the 
benefits of GSettings which I already mentioned. As a developer, 
GSettings will allow me to remove a significant amount of code in 
EasyTAG and to instead use well-tested code from GIO, which I find 
appealing.

Do you instead mean that you do not wish to use dconf, the configuration 
database that is commonly used as the GSettings backend on Linux? dconf 
can be configured to write configuration to text files, if you prefer, 
although that setup does not have all the benefits of the 
database-backed dconf.

Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik — 2013-05-17T11:34:53

:2013-05-17T11:53:David King:


Because some of us don't like having elaborate registry like datastorage
system around. I can appreciate that it reduces code clutter and allows
for some things to work differently - I'm just not happy with this
abstraction when it comes to managing config files.

Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

David King — 2013-05-17T10:53:49

Hi Andraž

On 2013-05-17 12:21, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik <ruskie< at >codemages.net> wrote:

Would you care to explain why? Using GSettings instead of the custom 
configuration management in EasyTAG at the moment will simplify a lot of 
code in EasyTAG. Additionally, it will be possible to directly bind 
widget properties to settings and have changes take effect immediately.

Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik — 2013-05-17T10:21:38

:2013-05-17T10:29:David King:


To bad. I guess I'll stick to 2.1.8 then forever.

Re: Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

David King — 2013-05-17T09:29:15

Hi Pascal

On 2013-05-17 10:50, Pascal <ovocean< at >gmail.com> wrote:

This problem was reported on Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689419

This bug was fixed in EasyTAG 2.1.8, so that it would use the XDG 
folders for configuration files. You should check to see if your 
distribution provides a 2.1.8 EasyTAG package.

Future versions of EasyTAG (either 2.1.9 or 2.1.10) will use the 
GSettings system for storing configuration, and at that point there will 
be no EasyTAG configuration files as the settings will be stored in 
dconf (or in the registry on Windows).

Feature request: move ~/.easytag to a proper place (~/.config,~/.local ...)

Pascal — 2013-05-17T08:50:16

Hello, I'm requesting this to all the apps that pollute my home. I'd like it to be a clean place someday. Thanksto participate! ;)
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Re: EasyTag ... rocks! Feature thought?

Budgie — 2013-05-09T09:00:52

Seconded.  I really need this for my growing video file collection.
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Re: EasyTag ... rocks! Feature thought?

David King — 2013-05-08T10:06:36

Hi Shane

On 2013-05-06 09:36, Shane Gibson <sygibson< at >gmail.com> wrote:

This is possible, and even works for MPEG4 files at the moment, although 
by happy accident. Files with OGG containers should also be easy to 
support. However, this gets more complicated with other container or tag 
formats. Also, the tag fields supported for video would likely be 
different to those for audio formats, so this would need to be taken 
into account as well.


I think that there would need to be a better mapping of file 
capabilities to tag fields, as currently this is a bit fragile. This 
would be a fair amount of work, but would make it relatively simple to 
add support for new file formats, including those with very different 
tag fields, like video files.

I do not have time to work on such a project at the moment.


This is the perfect location for the discussion. :-)


Thanks!

Re: Some Swedish translations could be better

Johnny Rosenberg — 2013-05-07T18:52:13

2013/5/7 David King <amigadave< at >amigadave.com>:




I have actually followed this up a bit and I am now a member of three
more mailing lists… I have also downloaded the po file, and I will
have a closer look at it soon.


Johnny Rosenberg
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EasyTag ... rocks! Feature thought?

Shane Gibson — 2013-05-06T16:36:29

First off - I'm very very happy to see that EasyTag has been picked up and
revitalized!  I've used it on and off for a few years, and it's been a
godsend to keep my music collection clean, tagged, organized, and
manageable!

I recently have started collecting digital movies and television shows.
I've been searching for a movie tag/filename management utility as easy as
EasyTag ... but for digital video content.

So far - I've found nothing as clean, simple, logical, powerful, and
cohesive as EasyTag for video.

Then I thought ... I wonder if EasyTag could be extended to support video
file and metadata management as well?

I am not a software coder (I'm a production operations guy...) - so I have
no idea what the feasibility of this is...

I also apologize if I'm bringing this up in the wrong forum/location ...

Once again - thank you for the awesome EasyTag software.  It's the gold
standard by which I measure all digital content management systems...

~~shane


--
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Re: Some Swedish translations could be better

David King — 2013-05-07T08:01:54

Hi Johnny

On 2013-05-05 09:10, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum< at >gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for taking the time to report the problematic translations. For 
GNOME, there are various translation teams, generally one per language. 
The Swedish translation team has an information page, which should 
contain all the information that you need to contribute:

https://live.gnome.org/Swedish


Generally, GNOME translations go through the translation team for that 
language, rather than through the developer. The Swedish translation for 
EasyTAG is rather incomplete at the moment:

https://l10n.gnome.org/module/easytag/

I suggest that you contact the Swedish translation team, and they should 
be able to guide you through the process of submitting an updated 
translation.

Thanks again!

Re: Some Swedish translations could be better

Kip Warner — 2013-05-05T08:40:54

Hey Johnny. Thanks for offering to lend a hand. Your help is always
appreciated for Swedish, or any other translations you'd like to have a
go at.

Some Swedish translations could be better

Johnny Rosenberg — 2013-05-05T07:10:10

In the About dialogue (version 2.1.7) the word ”editering” is used. I
think it's better to use the word ”redigering” instead, since it is
actually a Swedish word that have been along for a very long time.

Also, the tag ”Album Artist” (I'm not even sure what this tag is for)
didn't get translated at all. Should be ”Albumartist”. Just
uncapitalise the A and remove the space.

I guess there is a lot more to correct, but this was what I saw
without looking for it…

I noticed that there are a few people involved in the Swedish
translation so I guess another one (me) will only complicate things,
but if someone is of a different opinion, I could do some translations
now and then.


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mp3 tags in flac

richard lucassen — 2013-05-04T21:07:39

Hello list,

After a:

metaflac --remove-all-tags file.flac

Easytag keeps on showing the original tags. This seems to be due to the
option "Write ID3 tags in FLAC file" I suppose.

Is there an easy way to remove the ID3 tags from a flac file by a
commandline instruction? AFAICS the "metaflac" program does not handle
these tags.

R.

Re: Track Number, and Year fields do not show all digits.

2013-05-02T22:39:06

OK.  Got it and thanks.  I didn't realise all the boxes expanded or
contracted together in proportion to whole pane.  Neat.
ps Following your advice I have 2.1.8 from openSUSE factory repo on
openSUSE 12.3 machine but cannot use this method on 12.2 machines.  Good
incentive to upgrade
Thanks again.
Alastair
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Re: Track Number, and Year fields do not show all digits.

David King — 2013-05-02T06:01:53

Hi Alastair

On 2013-05-01 19:30, Alastair <ajebay< at >errichel.co.uk> wrote:

You should be able to click and drag the pane (there is a "handle" to 
grab halfway down the right hand side of the file list, roughly next to 
the album field) to the left, which should enlarge the text entry fields 
so that you can see all the information. The window must be large 
enough so that there is room for the pane to be enlarged (and the file 
and browser list to be shrunk).

Track Number, and Year fields do not show all digits.

Alastair — 2013-05-01T18:30:30

Using 2.1.7 on openSUSE 12.2 with KDE desktop.  In the display the last didgit of the year 
field does not show and the track number only shows two digits even though I have 
settings to use three.  

So tracks 001 to 009 all show as track 00, track 100 to 109 show as 10.  You can work out 
the rest.  It makes life difficult when editing large classical works.  Is there any setting I can 
tweak to solve this so that all four digits of the year show and all three digits of the track 
number can be seen please?

Re: Chocolatey package for easytag

David King — 2013-04-30T09:15:08

Hi Bas

On 2013-04-30 01:45, Bas Bossink <bas.bossink< at >gmail.com> wrote:

There was a similar query about Windows installers last month:

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/easytag-list/2013-March/msg00020.html

I spent a bit of time working on EasyTAG for Windows last weekend, and 
pushed a few fixes, but 2.1.6 is the last version that is available for 
Windows and is quite old.

Anyway, good luck with your project, I do not have any problem with 
EasyTAG having more packages, in fact I support it!