Fwd: ATF: Stop spreading FUD about other media players

[Martin Aumueller]

On Fri July 21 2006 14:19, Jeff Mitchell 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).

I think this is exactly the point why it is necessary to have it configurable. 
This is the only downside of ATF, as I see it. If you happen to already have 
unique ids within your files from some other source, there is no reason to 
not use all the ATF features. To sum it up: I'd be happy if the meaning and 
description of the ATF checkbox would be changed to 'allow automatic meta 
data changes in music files'.

Martin