WMA tag support for TagLib

[Umesh Shankar]

Hi Scott,

I'm happy to make a TagLib addon, but it's not clear to me from the code 
  what is the correct way to do that, in the sense that there isn't a 
registration mechanism; it's implicit in the dispatching. I could in 
principle subclass the TagLib interface classes and build a separate 
library, but then I would need to keep it synced with TagLib changes, 
even if the WMA portion would be unaffected.

A cleaner and lower-maintenance way might if I could distribute a 
libwma.so (right now, it makes libwma.la to link statically) that would 
be loaded at runtime by TagLib, which would then query it to see which 
filetypes it handled by MIME type and/or filename and/or whatever other 
KDE mechanism, pardon my ignorance) and dispatch accordingly. Given that 
TagLib already builds separate libraries for these, it shouldn't be too 
hard to do.

It might make sense to incorporate certain changes, such as the 
UTF16-without-BOM stuff, into the mainline, since that at least should 
be free of copyright issues.

Umesh

Scott Wheeler wrote:
> You're right that I for the time being would prefer to not integrate WMA 
> support, but as Allan suggested it would be relatively straightforward to 
> distribute this as a TagLib addon rather than just a fork.  TagLib was kind 
> of designed with the hope that such would be relatively easy.  With that done 
> I'd then be fine linking to your stuff from the TagLib site.
> 
> Looking at the patch, it seems that I should come up with some way to register 
> new file types with FileRef (actually being able to replace the file 
> detection there altogether would be preferable), so I'll try to keep that in 
> mind for TagLib 1.4 which I'll probably start working towards in the next 
> week or so.