Fwd: ATF: Stop spreading FUD about other media players

[Gábor Lehel]

On 7/21/06, Jeff Mitchell <kde-dev at emailgoeshere.com> wrote:
> A couple more comments regarding his email and my replies in my forward:
>
> > 3)  It's called "Advanced Tag Features" not "Advanced Tagging Features."
> > It never purports to have anything to do with tagging, only to use the tag
> > to do advanced things.  Amarok already has decent tagging features to begin
> > with, such as tagging multiple files and the like.  However, "Advanced
> > Tracking Features" is a pretty good name too.  Anyone have a preference for
> > that name?
>
> Advanced Tracking Features would be more accurate for what it currently does;
> however, if we want to save statistic information in the files like QL, which
> I think is a good idea, then it makes sense to have it be a part of ATF (keep
> all options which write to files together, so users can entirely disable or
> enable Amarok touching their metadata, unless people think it'd be a good
> idea to separate the functionality).  If we do that, "Advanced Tracking
> Features" may end up being even more inaccurate and I'd prefer Advanced Tag
> Features, although I could be persuaded that it would be "statistics
> tracking" and thus Tracking would still be relevant.  I just think that if
> you have a more generic "Tag" name that you can then lump whatever features
> you want under it without introducing another name and/or having a name
> change later.

We could call them different things, so the Tracking Feature(s) would
be a subset of Tag Features. Though having two ATFs would also be
confusing.

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