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Greetings and salutations,<BR>
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With hopes of solving the tagging deficiencies in C#, I've started a port of TagLib to the .NET framework. This will allow easier and more complete adoption by programs like Cowbell and Muine, and hopefully replace entagged-sharp in Banshee (It doesn't play nice with multi-field text and is not very expendable). It'll also be a very smooth port to Windows.<BR>
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This first release (0.0.0) contains a complete but very untested port of TagLib 1.4.1 to C# with some minor bug fixes (I'll report them) and some API additions. This release doesn't install, but provides a test program "read-files" to read the tags from files. I've tested reading with many ogg-vorbis and mp3's and a single FLAC. (I'll check out writing tomorrow.)<BR>
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What I would ask (for those of you who use mono) is for you to test the reader with files you have and report any errors to me. Usage is as follows:
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<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=1>Untar the file.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=2>Enter the directory in a shell.
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=3>./compile.sh
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=4>cd tests/
<LI TYPE=1 VALUE=5>./read-files /path/to/files/*
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The port was not that smooth with lots of typecasting and a few mistakes I was able to find, so hopefully with some testing it should be good to go.<BR>
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Coming soon:
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<LI>List of project goals.
<LI>Monodoc documentation.
<LI>Explanation of differences and features.
<LI>Sample tag writer.
<LI>How-to examples.
<LI>m4a???
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Thanks in advance for your testing.<BR>
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Brian Kerrick Nickel <<A HREF="mailto:brian.nickel@gmail.com">brian.nickel@gmail.com</A>>
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