Announcing taglib-sharp-0.0.0 - TESTERS NEEDED

[Brian Kerrick Nickel]

Greetings and salutations,

With hopes of solving the tagging deficiencies in C#, I've started a
port of TagLib to the .NET framework. This will allow easier and more
complete adoption by programs like Cowbell and Muine, and hopefully
replace entagged-sharp in Banshee (It doesn't play nice with multi-field
text and is not very expendable). It'll also be a very smooth port to
Windows.

This first release (0.0.0) contains a complete but very untested port of
TagLib 1.4.1 to C# with some minor bug fixes (I'll report them) and some
API additions. This release doesn't install, but provides a test program
"read-files" to read the tags from files. I've tested reading with many
ogg-vorbis and mp3's and a single FLAC. (I'll check out writing
tomorrow.)

What I would ask (for those of you who use mono) is for you to test the
reader with files you have and report any errors to me. Usage is as
follows:

     1. Untar the file.
     2. Enter the directory in a shell.
     3. ./compile.sh
     4. cd tests/
     5. ./read-files /path/to/files/*

The port was not that smooth with lots of typecasting and a few mistakes
I was able to find, so hopefully with some testing it should be good to
go.

Coming soon:

      * List of project goals.
      * Monodoc documentation.
      * Explanation of differences and features.
      * Sample tag writer.
      * How-to examples.
      * m4a???


Thanks in advance for your testing.
-- 
Brian Kerrick Nickel <brian.nickel at gmail.com>
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