[mb-devel] tagging m4a files with Picard on Feisty

[Bogdan Butnaru]

On 2/18/07, Luk?? Lalinsk? <lalinsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Ne, 2007-02-18 at 00:31 +0100, Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
> > Hi! I tried today to tag some m4a files. I use Picard from the Feisty
> > repositories. It refused to accept the files through drag and drop.
>
> It's because Ubuntu's libtunepimp was built without MP4 support. You can
> submit a bug report, but I'm not sure if it will be possible to fix as
> libtunepimp is in section "main", libmp4v2 is in "multiverse".

OK, I submitted to see what happens.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libtunepimp/+bug/86033

> PicardQt [1] supports MP4 files out-of-the-box, but the only way to
> install it right now if from the sources. I'd like to make a
> Debian/Ubuntu package for it, but that won't be sooner that after the
> first beta release (~two weeks).
> [1] http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PicardQt

Glad to see it's so advanced already!

How soon do you think we could trust it not to break files? I was
wondering, do you think it's possible to have a script that takes a
big pile of files, _copies_ each of them to a temp directory,
instructs picard to tag them, and then feeds both files to a
comparator (or several, if available) that check if only the tags
changed?

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