Improved musicbrainz support

[Frederik Holljen]

Hi,

On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Frederik Holljen <fh at ez.no> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I'm in need of better musicbrainz tagging support. More specifically I
> > need support for:
> > - tagging albums
> > - tagging more than one single at the time
> >
> > Of course, I don't expect you to do anything, but plan to implement this
> > myself. But before I dive any deeper into  it:
> > - anything like this discussed or implemented before?
>
> It has been discussed for years but hasn't been implemented. The
> musicbrainz library has (at least in the past) been really crappy
> quality so there hasn't been much energy to invest in musicbrainz.
I'll dig into to see what can be done. My initial guess was that it couldn't 
be so hard since single file tagging already works. One could simply use and 
compare information for a lot of single files to find out which album they 
belong to (especially if the user who often knows already groups them for 
you)

Were there any specific details in how you wanted this implemented?

> A couple of years ago I actually submitted a Google Summer of Code
> project to add album-based tagging using Amazon to get the track
> information. It didn't get accepted and I never implemented it, but
> anyways tagging a whole album at a time makes a lot of sense to me.
>
> > - is it welcome into the kde 3.x branch?
>
> Not really, the 1.4 branch is for bug fixes only.
KDE 4.0 is a long way away though. How is developing against the 2.x branch? 
Is it stable enough to do any useful work on it?

>
> > - would you accept the patch?
>
> For 2.0 sure, or commit yourself.
Excellent.

Cheers,
Frederik