Fwd: ATF: Stop spreading FUD about other media players

[Ian Monroe]

On 7/21/06, Martin Aumueller <aumueller at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> 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.
Martin we talked about this in IRC and you are really making no sense.
There are no other applications that use the uniqueid tag. The eyeD3
script is the only other thing I've seen that is aware of them at all.
And as I explained to you and as Jefferai does, they are indexed by
application name.

Though iTunes adds a bunch of crap to the comment tag which I suppose
could be used, though their purpose is unknown. But lets not add such
complexity until we get all the rough edges currently in SVN sorted
out.

> 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'.

This could conceivably make sense, so that people could turn it off if
they didn't want to add tags to additional songs or something while
retaining the benefits of existing tags. Or for instance, like a ruby
script could probably be made to tag Amarok-compatible uniqueids using
rubytag++ or eyeD3. This might be useful for people working over slow
NFS.

> Martin